The Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the High Renaissance are only three ages individually but as a whole helped shape our modern philosophies and ideas of art and influenced generations of artists among them, Leonardo Da Vinci, Giovanni Bellini, and Giotto. Among there many works of art ther...

It has often been said that time heals all wounds. Although I believe this statement to be true, I find it incomplete. Time may heal, but it never forgets. This fact is apparent in our literature, both classical and modern. It is an oddity of the human condition: we are fascinated by evil and wrongd...

The Quintessential Composers Try this. Play for someone a random selection of classical music and ask him or her to identify a given piece. Now do the same with Joy to the World by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frederic Handel, and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Ama...

Dante's Beatrice and Petrarch's Laura Dante Alighieri's Beatrice and Francesco Petrarca's Laura influenced the lives and writings of these two great authors. Francesco Petrarca, better known to the literary world as Petrarch, met the woman who would become the driving force b...