Happy Easter 2015! Christos Anesti!

Happy Easter, everybody!  This year's Easter art is a painting (c. 1511) that was only recently identified as a work by Titian, one of the artistic giants of the Italian Renaissance.

Mapping Millennia of Cultural History

Happy Easter! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!

Veteran readers of this blog know that every Easter Sunday I post a great master's artistic rendition of the Resurrection.  This year's art is a piece of the masterful Averoldi Polyptych by Titian.  Dated 1520-22, the polyptych resides in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia, Italy.

If you'd like a little artistic journey through the past, you can see my curated Easter art from 2010 (Fra Angelico), 2011 (Michelangelo), 2012 (Veronese), and 2013 (Michelangelo again).

PS: Cool factoid: This year everybody celebrates Easter on the same day - Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant.

Art History Nerd Fun: Identifying the Artist

This is hilarious.  The last one made me laugh out loud.

Can Pinturicchio Paint with All the Colors of the Wind?

Is this 15th-century fresco the first Western artistic depiction of Native Americans?  Pinturrichio executed this in 1494, just two years after Columbus's epoch-shaking voyage to the New World.

Professor Donald Kagan on A Liberal Education

Yale's great historian gives his farewell lecture.  Do listen.

Happy Easter!

Every Easter I post a work of religious art for the occasion.  Usually it's a painting, but this year it's a sculpture.  I give you one of my favorite underappreciated works of the great Michelangelo: his beautiful, triumphant Risen Christ (1519-21) in marble, now in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.  By the way, Michelangelo's work is a heroic nude; the bit of drapery was added later in the Baroque period.

Oh, it's Easter.  Here's something fun from a previous celebration.

Forgotten History: Artistic/Intellectual Feuds

Spanning the Renaissance to the modern age, here are some delicious tales of brilliant people engaging in some memorable feuds. 

Happy Columbus Day

I'm terribly busy today, so I lamely give you my post from last year.  

Awesome: Ghiberti's Gate of Paradise

California Dreamer just told me this lovely news about the restoration of a Renaissance masterpiece.  How awesome is it?  So awesome that it impressed even Michelangelo himself.

Happy Easter to Everyone!

The Resurrection of Christ 

(1570)

Paolo Veronese

Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany

Art History Lesson: Titian's "Diana and Callisto"

Very cool!

Another Da Vinci Code Kerfuffle

Whatever?

Creative License: Famous Paintings Reimagined

Do take a look!

Columbus Day Reading

I always recommend one book, and, as it happens, so does the Insta-Prof: Samuel Eliot Morrison's excellent Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.

Nerd Notes: 10 Lost Works of Literature

Just thinking about this makes my nerdy heart hurt a little -- or would, if I had a heart, which of course I don't.  Imagine too if we had more plays from ancient Greece and Rome ...  Of course, sometimes we do get lucky.

Christos Anesti -- Happy Easter!

Detail of Christ in glory from Michelangelo's Last Judgment (1537-41)

The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Happy Easter to all my friends and gentle readers!  Alithos anesti.

History Nerd News: Henry VIII's Bloodline

Fascinating!

Vita Brevis, Ars Longa: Your Virtual Art Museum

Feast your eyes!  The Botticelli will take your breath away.

Virtual Reality and San Giovanni in Laterano

You can now visit the gorgeous Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome from the comfort of your own computer.  (Via Presurfer)  The basilica is ancient and beautiful, with a colorful history, and I've had the great good fortune of visiting it in person ... though I must confess that I still love San Pietro more: it houses Michelangelo's Pieta!