The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
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On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
What will happen to this villa and its unique collection of 16th- and 17th-century ceiling paintings?
The Renaissance San Marco convent, now a museum, is where Fra Angelico lived and painted under the patronage of Cosimo de’ Medici. It was also where Savonarola proclaimed the Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Chair of History of Art and Architecture, UMass Amherst
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Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter
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Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Art History, Penn State
