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...over the Alps, astride the busy River Po. It blossomed during the 11th century rise of the House of Savoy, one of Europe's oldest royal bloodlines: today in the Palazzo Reale visitors can view a snapshot of how one lived like a King two centuries ago. In the 16th century, Torino became an object of pilgrimage when the Holy Shroud, the white sheet that many Catholic faithful believe wrapped Jesus after his crucifixion, fetched up in the Duomo di San Giovanni Battista. The city was reborn as the first capital of a united Italy in 1861 - though the capital...
According to the former director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, Lawrence S. Thompson, the first reputed example of human-skin binding—anthropodermic bibliopegy—dates to a 13th century French Bible. Human-skin binding likely began in the late 16th or early 17th century, according to Thompson, who has written about the topic...
...Scholars also question the style of the map, a hemispheric projection that the Chinese aren't known to have used until the 16th century. Geoff Wade, a Ming expert at the National University of Singapore, says the map is "clearly a hoax," and was "probably made in the last few years." He observes: "If you've seen any of the maps from Zheng He's voyages, they're in a completely different style...
...Language. Douglas Bruster, now an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, recalled that Evans’ office was always filled with “too many stacks of proofs and galleys and books and papers.” Among the books were the 16th- and 17th-century texts that Evans had collected since the 1930s, and that he shared freely with students and fellow scholars. Sometimes he even gave them these rare books as gifts, Engell said. “He was the kindest person I’ve ever met in my life...
...illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII of England and his six wives. In Sugimoto's rendering, it is as if the royals had traveled from the 16th century to sit for official portraits. Subverting our assumptions about reality and illusion has long been one of the bedrocks of Sugimoto's career. "Ever since photography was invented," he explains, "it has been credited with providing credibility"?hence the adage that the camera never lies. This is a fallacy...