A Good Fabrication
Throughout his lifetime, and long after his death, stories have cemented his reputation as a megalomaniacal monster of lust and cruelty. But how many of these stories are based in fact, and how many are made up to intensify the ‘Black Borgia’ myth?
Man vs. turtle
420 years after the Renaissance Masters - Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo - died, they were reborn as crime fighting turtles. But how closely related are they?
It’s All About David
Donatello: a pioneer of the Renaissance. His David: the first free-standing, male nude since Antiquity. But what does it mean? Does David remind us underdogs do succeed? To have faith in God? Or does he celebrate queer culture?
A different perspective
La Pietà. A seminal work in Art History, and a sculpture which defined the career of one of the world’s greatest artists. But what, if in addition to the Pietà, Michelangelo was referencing another event?
EXCOMMUNICATING A FRIAR
On this day in 1497, the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, excommunicated the Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola. But who was Savonarola? What did he do that deserved excommunication in a time so rife with sin? And why is it important?
