christoper columbus

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The controversy exists in a strange space where incredibly divergent concepts of Columbus exist at the extremes. The two cannot come together because they employ entirely different embodiments of Columbus’ significance. So where do you stand if you condemn the...

Ironically Columbus Day began as an attempt to reconcile the new immigrants with Americans and even Native Americans. A final irony: as the Italian American community gathers to celebrate and march past Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave, the beautiful...

The exhibition is on in Rome's Capitoline Museums until September 10th and it shows the story of the painter Bernardino di Betto, nicknamed “Pinturicchio.” Between 1492 and 1494, he decorated a suite of rooms in the Apostolic Palace for the...