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Tag: art
Da Vinci’s Famous Mural Once Showed Christ’s Feet
Like a lot of masterpieces from centuries past, “In Milan’s unassuming Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery, millions flock to glimpse Leonardo da Vinci’s spellbinding mural The Last Supper - Jesus’ final gathering alive with drama moments before betrayal. Though now an iconic masterpiece of the High Renaissance, it may shock tourists to learn the painting once moldered decrepit and vandalized for centuries, its innovations lost on contemporaries.The Last Supper” has undergone significant changes since it first saw the light of day. Perhaps most significantly, Leonardo da Vinci’s...
The Literary Legend Behind The Legend of Zelda
Long before she was a pixilated princess guiding Link on fantastical quests, Zelda was a real-life literary darling of the early 20th century. The iconic video game heroine actually inherited her name from Jazz Age writer and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of The Great Gatsby scribe F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Bread was once used as an Eraser
These days, few sights seem as innocuous as a freshly sharpened pencil poking from a child’s “Frozen” backpack, pink wedge of eraser crowning its tip. Yet that handy little erasing appendage only became standard over the last century or so.
