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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Botticelli’s 92 Surviving Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1481)

Botticelli’s 92 Surviving Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1481)

Every true Renaissance man needed a wealthy patron, and many Italian artist-inventor-scholar-poets found theirs in Lorenzo de’Medici, scion of a ...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time

Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time

When we start learning a language, we soon find ourselves practicing how to ask for the time.

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in the musical scale,' writes the BBC's Jane C...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock’s Strict Rules for Watching Psycho in Theaters (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock’s Strict Rules for Watching Psycho in Theaters (1960)

Psycho, one of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic films, didn't come together very easily. Hitchcock's studio, Paramount Pictures, didn't like anything abou...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How the Avant-Garde Art of Gustav Klimt Got Perversely Appropriated by the Nazis

How the Avant-Garde Art of Gustav Klimt Got Perversely Appropriated by the Nazis

On paper, the Nazis shouldn't have liked Gustav Klimt.

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Why Hiroshima, Despite Being Hit with the Atomic Bomb, Isn’t a Nuclear Wasteland Today

Why Hiroshima, Despite Being Hit with the Atomic Bomb, Isn’t a Nuclear Wasteland Today

Jan Morris visited Hiroshima in 1959, fourteen years after its devastation by the United States' atomic bomb.

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write "1984"

George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984

Image via Wikimedia Commons Most of the twentieth century's notable men of letters — i.e., writers of books, of essays, of reportage — seem al...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

America’s First Banned Book: Discover the 1637 Book That Mocked the Puritans

America’s First Banned Book: Discover the 1637 Book That Mocked the Puritans

In the contest for the title of the most American historical figure of them all, Thomas Morton's name can't be left out. Businesslike, litigious, g...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Has Been Digitized and Put Online https://www.openculture.com/2022/02/the-medieval-masterpiece-the-book-of-kells-has-been-digitized-and-put-online.html via @npub1l44j...ttpp

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Paintings: An Introduction to Madame X and Dr. Pozzi at Home

John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Paintings: An Introduction to Madame X and Dr. Pozzi at Home

Henry James, perhaps the most famous American expatriate novelist of the nineteenth century, won a great deal of his fame with The Portrait of a Lady.

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence

How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence

Even if Florence didn't represent the absolute pinnacle of human civilization at the end of the thirteenth century, it had to have been a strong co...

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Behold a Digitization of "The Most Beautiful of All Printed Books," The Kelmscott Chaucer

Behold a Digitization of “The Most Beautiful of All Printed Books,” The Kelmscott Chaucer

The history of the printed book stretches back well over a millennium, the title of the oldest known book currently being held by a Tang Dynasty wo...

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841-1871)

The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841–1871)

The ravages of COVID-19 have been followed by the ravages of the post-pandemic tourism boom. If you've been reading recent coverage of aggressive t...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Watch Nina Simone’s Flawless Tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach on The Ed Sullivan Show (1960)

Watch Nina Simone’s Flawless Tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach on The Ed Sullivan Show (1960)

Some 80 years ago, in a small North Carolina town, Eunice Waymon, a musically gifted, nine-year-old black girl, began taking piano lessons in the h...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned Life in the Year 2000: Drawing the Future

How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000

Atomic physicist Niels Bohr is famously quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” Yet despite year...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Inspired the Creepy Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Inspired the Creepy Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

Certain directors like to implicate their audience in their onscreen crimes, drawing on decades of expectations created by popular cinematic tropes...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Michio Kaku Explains the Physics Behind Absolutely Everything

Michio Kaku Explains the Physics Behind Absolutely Everything

But according to City University of New York's Michio Kaku, it's physics all the way down.

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire

How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire

At its peak in the second century, the Roman Empire dominated nearly two million square miles of the world. As with most such grand achievements, i...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)

Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)

It isn't easy to say which book is the oldest in the world, because the answer depends on what, exactly qualifies as a book.

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin

Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin

We're all familiar with keyboard instruments. Many of us have also heard (or indeed made) music, of a kind, with the rims of wine glasses. But to u...

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