... what is funny, how humor works at such moments, and when it is 'appropriate' to rely on a sense of humor.
Renaissance humor (1500-1700) comes under scrutiny at a conference at the University of ...
... of the research project that took her more than seven years.
In the current issue of Renaissance Quarterly, Ghirardo explains how Lucrezia turned seemingly worthless swampland into reclaimed land. ...
Nuns and priests sacrificed their own lives to provide medical care for the poor in Renaissance France, according to a new study that implicates exposure to contagious plague victims in the deaths of ...
Maps are texts and repositories of knowledge that reveal much about Renaissance life and culture, according to U.Va. associate professor of art history Francesca Fiorani. She believes that the ability ...
Researchers have combined two ion-beam analysis techniques to obtain more detailed information about the paints used in Renaissance works of art
... a study suggesting that instant messaging (IM) actually represents “an expansive new linguistic renaissance”. Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis at the University of Toronto, Canada, say teenagers risk ...
... drug resistance.
Eight years and thousands of AIDS deaths later, protease inhibitors launched a renaissance of anti-HIV drug development in 1995. Combination therapies dramatically cut the rate of ...
A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.
... synthetic dyes in the late 1800s and 1900s. That's a lot of art -- from Egyptian textiles to Renaissance tapestries to Impressionist paintings and beyond.
Because red dyes are easily damaged by light ...
... at the INMM 2008 Annual Meeting July 13-17, 2008, at the Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Nashville Hotel, in Nashville, Tenn., USA:
Opening Speakers: David Waller, Deputy Director ...
... understanding them; later, pinhole cameras were used by Chinese, Arab, and European scholars. Renaissance painters learned the principals of perspective using the camera obscura, literally a "dark ...
... polymorphisms (SNPs) and tests called comparative genomic hybridization have led to an exciting renaissance of genetics-based syndrome delineation, says Ledbetter in his editorial.
"In the early ...
... retired as Navy surgeon general, Adm. Mike Mullen - now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - paid tribute to a "Renaissance man." "His resume says a lot," Mullen said. "B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D. and ...
Fears that mold has infiltrated Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of drawings and writings by the Renaissance master, are groundless, officials said Tuesday.
After 10 years of painstaking study and restoration that tested both cutting edge technology and human patience, one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the public.
