C Brown's List: Renaissance & Reformation

NY Times review from January 24, 2008 of a play by Machiavelli staged in NYC

Brief "Style" article in NY Times from 1997 about Baldassare Castiglione's advice that courtiers should wear black. Brief article also covers some of Castiglione's other advice to courtiers.

NY Times article on women artists which mentions Baldassare Castiglione's advice that women learn how to draw and paint.

NY Times "Travel" article in which the author recounts a hike of Mont Ventoux in honor of Petrarch's climb of the same mountain in 1336

BBC article on carbon-dating results of tests performed on Lupa Capitolina which show that the statue was manufactured in the 13th Century. The small human figures had earlier been shown to have been added to the wolf figure in the 15th Century (during the Renaissance.)

NY Times article concerning an exhibit of pietre dure at the Metropolitan Museum of art entitled “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure From the Palaces of Europe”