The Color of Healing: The Role of Color in Diagnosis and Therapy in Premodern Medicine

Dr. Jeremy Wasser

He knew the cause of everich maladye,
Were it of hoot or cold, or moiste, or drye,
And where engendred, and of what humour;
He was a verrey parfit practisour:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbur...

Dr. Fabirzio Ricciardelli

Family structures were central to social life in Renaissance Florence. Florentine society revolved around patriarchal households, where marriage alliances, kinship ties, and lineage shaped social status and economic security. Women were primarily defined through their r...

Dr. William E. Wallace

Professor Wallace will introduce his new book which relates the compelling story of a forty-year rivalry between the two most celebrated artists of their time: Michelangelo and Titian. This is the story about the entwined lives of two artists who were more attentive and ...

In early years of art appreciation, while judging Kyoto’s International Film Festival, I asked Oscar-winning cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, whom he favored as a painter. Storaro inquired if I had seen, what he deemed as the narrative genesis of film in early modern history, Giotto’s fresco cy...