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The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is particu... See more

M. E. Rothwell on Substack

Nothing would have confirmed Petrarch’s view of Venetians’ material obsessions so much as the journey of Giosafat Barbaro, a merchant and diplomat who set out from Tana with 120 laborers to search a Scythian burial mound on the steppes for treasure. In 1447, he traveled by sledge up the frozen rivers, but “found the ground so hard, we were constrai

Roger Crowley • City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

eighteenth-century painter Francesco Guardi, who would influence everyone from Turner to Whistler to Monet with the exquisite atmospheric effects of his skies and reflective waters.

Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

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Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization

Francesco di Giorgio from Siena.8 Thirteen years older than Leonardo, he was another exemplar of an artisan who combined art, engineering, and architecture. He had begun as a painter, moved as a young man to Urbino to work as an architect, returned to Siena to run the underground aqueduct system, and was a sculptor in his spare time. He was also in

Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci

ST. FRANCIS OF PAOLA (d. 1507),

Joan Carroll Cruz • Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints

Gio Ponti: ‘Come for Porchetta’

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