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“And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.” Up through the 19th century, churches...
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The Medici Easter Surprise, Revisited
On Easter Sunday, 1478, while attending church in the Duomo (main cathedral of Florence), Giuliano and Lorenzo de’ Medici were attacked and stabbed multiple times by a gang of assassins. The brothers...
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Michelangelo’s Pauline Self Portrait
Crop of The Crucifixion of St. Peter (click to enlarge) The Vatican is finally acknowledging what we all assumed was a self Portrait of Michelangelo in his Crucifixion of St. Peter, a mural he painted...
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