Tag: Renaissance

  • Played to death: bringing music back to life

    Played to death: bringing music back to life

    Written By Anastazja Grudnicka | @AGrudnicka Every once in a while I come across a certain kind of evidence that stays on my mind long after I move on with my research. Sometimes it’s the source itself, other times it’s the circumstances in which a particular text, object, picture appears that makes it echo at the…

  • 2. A Renaissance Mirror

    2. A Renaissance Mirror

    By Zoe Farrell (@zoeffarrell) In an age before electrical lighting, in cramped cities with few sources of natural light, mirrors acted as a tool to bring light into homes. They were also decorative, placed alongside paintings to accentuate the splendour of ordinary domestic environments.[1] Venice, and particularly Murano, became the centre of European mirror production during the…