The moment I saw this photo of Regina King from this year’s Emmy’s… …I immediately thought of the Scrovegni Chapel ceiling: The dress is haute couture, Look 29 of Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection. It’s described on the fashion house’s website as an “asymmetric bustier dress in electric blue faille embroidered with multicolored jewels.” The Scrovegni Read more
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Bellini and the bellini
Look bitch. These are the facts: The bellini was born in Venice in 1948 at Harry’s Bar; Harry’s Bar has always been popular, and remains famous for having been frequented by famous people (Ernest Hemingway being among the most famous and the most frequent); the drink is basically just an Italian mimosa—the original recipe called Read more
Charles Estienne (1504-1564) was a French printer and anatomist who in 1545 printed one of the first anatomies to include illustrations1. This book, De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (On dissection of the human body), includes 62 full-page woodcuts printed from 56 woodblocks, each receiving from the start attention for their eroticism and novel Read more
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Set in Bembo
After finishing Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King’s book on the apex of architectural and engineering innovation during the Italian Renaissance, I flipped to the copyright page and noticed, near the very bottom, the following sentence: Set in Bembo I noticed too that the sentence is un-punctuated, which did not strike me as exceptionally odd—especially after checking at Read more