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This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...
Rick Steves' Europe. Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the Florentine Renaissance. Season 12 Episode 1207 | 28m 3s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the ...
On both sides of the Atlantic last week, men paid homage to a renaissance. “The nations of Western Europe,” said President Kennedy on the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, “long divided by ...
The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...
The Trump administration should support European defense boosts. Trump shouldn't oppose a new European Union loan system that excludes U.S. defense firms.
After centuries of medieval struggles, Europe enjoyed a rebirth, or renaissance, of the enlightened ways of ancient Greece and Rome. Though born in Florence, all this progress, so much great ...
It’s all part of Europe’s ongoing rail renaissance, which is being driven in large part by strong interest from passengers. “For long-distance travel, trains are full — and we have more ...
Doctor Faustus was a real person—a conduit, said some (including Martin Luther) for diabolic magic. Others in early 16th-century Germany dismissed him as a “vagabond,” a man who played ...
Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe to UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center as part of the Cup of Culture ...
Meet Renaissance Fusion, a Grenoble-based startup that has been working on nuclear fusion for the past couple of years. The company recently raised $16.4 million (€15 million) in funding in a ...
Europe’s nuclear hesitancy. Opposition to nuclear power, coupled with other factors, has created a 25 percent overall decline in electricity produced by splitting atoms in the 27-country ...
The European Union is also making $163 billion in defense loans available to its 27 member ... Rather than complain about U.S. defense companies losing out in Europe's defense renaissance, ...