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ROBERT CAMPIN "MERODE ALTARPIECE" 1430 (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK)82

Renaissance Artists

The Renaissance may have been sparked through ideas expressed in the 14th Century by the Italian author, Petrarch, regarding a desire to see a revival of classical learning.  Renaissance artists led the way...

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Common Superstitions Regarding Numbers and Dates81

Common Superstitions Regarding Numbers And Dates

Human Beings are odd creatures sometimes.  For some reason, every culture on Earth has its own sets of superstitions.  In every culture around the world there is a set of beliefs held by the people that...

2 comments    da vinci code superstitions
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The Code of the Holy Blood

In 1890, the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a young Dutch novelist he was searching for "a demoniac sodomite priest" who performed the black mass. Joris-Karl - "J.K." for the friends - needed this...

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In 2007, my historical faction thriller "Nostradamus in Orval" (written in Dutch) was published.78

Nostradamus and the Lost Templar Treasure

Here is all the information you need, right out of the so-called prophecies of Nostradamus that are in reality a code, to start a true treasure hunt and find the Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar somewhere in the realms of the abbey of Orval, in Belgium.

1 comment    education recreation literature
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The High Renaissance: Rome and Florence vs. Venice

The well-known painting Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, created by Leonardo da Vinci from 1495-1498 will be compared and contrasted with Last Supper by Tintoretto in 1594,...

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Born Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson75

Famous Birthday Listings: April 15

Born on this day? HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Below are some very famous celebrities (60 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! ...

4 comments    entertainment pictures photos
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Leonardo da Vinci vs Michelangelo, who is the Greatest Master?

Leonard da Vinci was born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci on the 15th of April 1452 in Vinci, Florence (present day Italy) Being a scientist, sculpture, writer, and painter amongst many other things. He has...

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Five Books To Read If You Liked Da Vinci Code

Da Vinci Code made headlines for its controversial and intriguing plot-line worldwide. Dan Brown's main lead, Robert Langdon is a famed symbologist and Sophie Neveu, a police cryptologist, land up in a chase...

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This picture speaks volumes.69

Freedom of Expression Civil Liberty

This picture speaks volumes. A tyrannical view. Symbol of Freedom of Expression Activists. The flip side. An Artistic Expression on voicing an expression. A Zebra who isn't afraid to freely expressing...

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Being Beautiful: A Thinking Woman’s Perspective

It has been said that beauty itself is a kind of intelligence. That might be, all in all, a pejorative statement if read in a certain, pop culture-ish light, a culture which feeds on fantasy and desire,...

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