Did you know Michelangelo and Leonardo couldn’t stand one another?
In the first decade of the sixteenth century, the arch rivals were asked to create murals on the same wall of the Council Hall of Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The same… Read More
In 1564, the Council of Trent ordered artist Daniele da Volterra to add pants to some of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment.… Read More
The poet Joyce Kilmer (famous for the poem "I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.") was a man. As was novelist Evelyn Waugh. Novelists George Eliot and George Sand were both women.