I. Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance : Music in the life of the Greeks ; The beginning of the Middle Ages ; The worldly songs of the Trouvères and Troubadours ; Early polyphony and the beginnings of ...

Image above: A page from a book of music by Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, part of the Burns Library collection. A trio of events hosted by the Boston College Music Department ...

It’s not every day you hear 16th-century melodies floating through an Axarquia museum. But Nerja’s about to get a taste of ...

What is Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., doing in an exhibition titled “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy”? And why do the Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.), Judith (sixth century B.C.), Salome and Mary ...

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

“Strong Women in Renaissance Italy,” just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, might be a test case for truth in advertising. Exhibitions of works by women artists of the Renaissance have recently been ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...