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  • A Fourteenth-Century Italian Choir Book – Day 3

    A Fourteenth-Century Italian Choir Book – Day 3

    Today’s entry features a page from a 14th-century choir book called an antiphonary. Like most medieval choir books, it’s huge and has big illustrations.

  • Leonardo’s Lost Princess

    Leonardo’s Lost Princess

    Some thoughts on Leonardo’s Lost Princess, a book about a drawing controversially attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Bernini’s Angels

    Bernini’s Angels

    I have been working on a new skating program for the past month or so to a song called “Bernini’s Angels”, so I have recently been thinking a lot about the titular sculptor. In the program, I play the character of a young art student who is stuck in a terrible creative rut, travels to…

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