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Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion

Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...

May 25, 20214 min read

May 26 Barnardo's

Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...

May 21, 20213 min read

May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain

Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...

May 1, 20213 min read

May 2 The Polymath Priest who studied the Plague

The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...

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