Son of Violence won the G3 Sanford by 10 ½ lengths and finished fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint last out ...

What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies ...

The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante ...

You know you’re in for a good time at the new Renaissance fair-themed musical comedy “Huzzah!,” when the pre-curtain speech is performed live, with bassoon and tambourine accompaniment, advising ...

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A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening. By Jonathan Healey Jonathan Healey is ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

At Orlando’s Renaissance Theatre, the musical “Hair” opens with Matthew Lynxwiler blasting the national anthem on his electric guitar, despairing with distortion and embellishments, from center stage.

A ll historical periods are created twice: first in their own age, and again in the work of their interpreters. But this truism applies in a special sense to the Renaissance, an era whose ...

Researchers investigated the quantities of thousands of muscle proteins and found a possible new explanation for muscle memory. A study showed for the first time that muscles 'remember' training at ...