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...Over recent years there has been a veritable cult of a sort of 'Goya code' of looking at scratch marks, odd jottings, odd shapes in old paint and anything that might be hidden just below the surface and making a lot out of it," says University of Essex Goya scholar Sarah Symmons. "Who might have painted a bit of the picture, or all of it, or just doodled on the painting one day when bored - who knows?" Nor does Symmons necessarily embrace the argument that the painting's compositional style points to an artist other than Goya. "His prints, which...
...more modern times, people have searched for evidence of unicorns, or in its absence, fabricated their own. Most notably was the hulking, alien-looking skeleton fabricated by a German scholar in 1663. In the 1930s, an arguably mad scientist from Maine manipulated the horns of a calf so that they grew entwined as one, proving, at least in theory that unicorns could exist - sort of. Not to be outdone, Barnum and Bailey managed to fuse the two horns of a white goat, named Lancelot, to the glee of fans throughout the 1980s...
...She’s just an incredibly thoughtful commentator and scholar whose work really matters,” Reverby said. “She’s one of the few people who make history matter...
...BIBLICAL SCHOLAR...
Radcliffe Executive Dean Louise M. Richardson was named the next leader of the University of St. Andrews, the Radcliffe Institute announced yesterday. Richardson, a leading scholar on terrorism and political violence, will be the first woman to serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities’ president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities” starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male...