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...Bologna may be a broad type, but one of his cultural ancestors, Duke Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), was also quick to anger, though once you got to know him, he would build you a palace. Like all great Renaissance men, Federico was a liberal humanist with diverse interests. He also happened to be the most accomplished military strategist in 15th century Europe, and he used his immense profits as a freelance killing machine to turn Urbino, his hometown in the Marche region on Italy's eastern coast, into the Greenwich Village of the Quattrocento, a place where architects, soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: A Tribute to Art | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review: Franche Prose | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...took three-and-a-half centuries for the world to catch up with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review: Franche Prose | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...College is using Office dA, an architecture and urban design firm in Boston, for the design feasibility study, which is slated to be completed by December, according to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Harvard Pub: Say What? | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...Santa Monica, Calif., Hanks doesn't look like a man consumed by the moon. He looks like a man getting over a cold--coughing, sipping hot tea and racing to get through the last few weeks of postproduction before heading to Europe to begin shooting his next superproject, The Da Vinci Code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon Struck | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

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