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The town loggia.
Grožnjan, Croatia

Grožnjan Town Loggia

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.
Henry VIII: Recorder Hero.
music

Celebrating Henry VIII's Love Affair With the Humble Recorder

The infamous king wrote original compositions for everyone's grade-school flute.
Eric Grundhauser October 17, 2017
Humble produce makes up the face of "The Vegetable Gardener."
paintings

The Renaissance Painter Who Made Fantastical Portraits From Food

Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted surreal art unlike any of his contemporaries.
Anne Ewbank October 13, 2017
King Ferdinand I of Aragon had colorectal cancer.
mummies

Italian Renaissance Aristocrats Were Susceptible to Cancer, Too

Mummified evidence that cancer might not be a disease of the modern world.
Vittoria Traverso October 4, 2017
A long-fingered manicule on a manuscript from 1481.
medieval

For Centuries, Readers Annotated Books With Tiny Drawings of Hands

They were the medieval version of a highlighter.
Anika Burgess August 23, 2017
Glass floors reveal layers of underlying history.
Lecce, Italy

Museo Faggiano

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.
Michelangelo Caetani's cross-section of Hell, 1855.
maps

Mapping Dante's Inferno, One Circle of Hell at a Time

A topography of torment.
Anika Burgess July 13, 2017
Christ's entombment from the Isenheim Altarpiece.
Colmar, France

The Isenheim Altarpiece

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.
Manueline church.
Tomar, Portugal

Convento de Cristo

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.
Fresco ceilings
Albi, France

Albi Cathedral

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
The Cage of Shame
Levoča, Slovakia

Levoča Cage of Shame

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.
Florence, Italy

Michelangelo's Hidden Drawings

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
crime

The Scandalous Zines of Renaissance England

Broadsides were the Facebook posts and tweets of their day.
Natalie Zarrelli July 26, 2016
weddings

Leonardo Da Vinci Was a Wedding Planner

He really was a Renaissance man.
Bob Eckstein July 13, 2016
Casa del Petrarca
Arquà Petrarca, Italy

Casa del Petrarca (Petrarch House Museum)

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.
Florence, Italy

Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.