Band of Wild Petticoats

Matteo da Milano (active 1492-1523) - Getty The sturdy vellum pages of pre- and early- modern manuscripts will likely prove capable of o...

Allegory of Spring by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482 Spring is nearly upon us. To celebrate: e.e. cummings and Renaissance paintings featuri...

Orpheus and Eurydice by Sir Edward John Poynter (19th century) The last couple of posts ( here , here , and here ) have dealt with the w...

Detail from Masaccio's painting of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel The many star-crossed lovers of yesterday...

Tristan and Iseult by Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922) Yesterday's post  began a discussion on the curious intersection of love an...

Statue of the 14th-century troubadour, Macías "The Lover," in Galicia Reading literature aloud and listening to it recited off...

Today - March 25 - marks the day in which Sauron, the strongest lieutenant of Morgoth, was defeated in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Eve...