The Renaissance is often remembered as a period where the arts flourished, and a renewed focus on philosophy and the sciences ...

The scenes are of pure carnage and chaos. Iron-clad men thrusting swords and pikes into each other. Guns firing and flames burning. Waves of human bodies both rushing to confront and scattering from ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...