Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice, was a member of the Herodian Dynasty and appointed Queen of Judaea under the Roman Empire. During the First Jewish-Roman War, she became the lover of the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, and she supported her lover’s father Vespasian greatly, both financially and politically, during his campaign. […]
Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was a pioneer female artist in Bologna, Italy, where she worked and established an art academy for other women. She died in 1665, aged 27, and the mysterious circumstances of her death, alongside her young age, led to believe there was foul play involved. A maidservant […]
Pierre Mignard (Troyes, 17 November 1612 – Paris, 30 May 1695) was a French painter, brother of the equally renowned Nicholas who was also a painter. He was contemporary to Charles Le Brun, the favourite painter of King Louis XIV, and he carried on with him a bitter rivalry that lasted his whole life. At […]
Porcia, born on 70 b.C., was the daughter of Cato the Younger, a stoic roman senator of the late republic, and the wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, the infamous assassin of Julius Caesar. Brutus married her after divorcing Claudia, the daughter of his long-time ally Appius Claudius Pulcher, without offering any reason whatsoever. This divorce […]
Le pillole che provengono dalla serie di norme UNI 11337 destano, chissà come mai, sempre scalpore. Mi aspetto che questa invece non scateni troppe polemiche, dato che ormai dovremmo aver compreso quali sono le competenze da richiedere a un BIM manager e qual è il suo inquadramento, con relative responsabilità e adeguato compenso, all’interno di […]
Sisygambis was the daughter of king Artaxerxes II Mnemon and, following an ancient Achaemenid tradition, she was made to wed her own brother Arsames. Her first-born, Darius, became king of Persia in 336 b.C., following an obscure plot in which the court eunuch and chiliarch had poisoned both king Artaxerxes III and his youngest son […]
I’m back from Billund, where I have attended the 2021 International LEGO Serious Play Conference, and I already published some of my notes in almost real-time, but I have more material and I’ll be publishing it, after some due polishing, between today and tomorrow. The first set of notes I’d like to share with you […]
Luca Ferrari, also known as Luca da Reggio (Reggio Emilia, February 17, 1605 – Padova, February 8, 1654), was an Italian baroque painter, pupil of Alessandro Tiarini and Guido Reni. He worked on mythological subjects and on the decoration of religious buildings, primarily in the area of Central and North-eastern Italy. Among his most important […]
Mariamne the Hasmonean Mariamne l’Hasmonéenne Mariamne I was a Hasmonean Princess, known for her extraordinary beauty just like her brother, Aristobulus III of Judea. She was the second wife of Herod the Great, a marriage arranged by her mother Alexandra in 41 b.C. They were married in Samaria in 37 b.C. and had four children: […]
Francesco Furini (born around 1600, died on August 19th, 1646) was a painter active in Florence during the Baroque period. He was brother to Alessandra, another renowned painter, and Angelica, a singer in the court of Cosimo II de’ Medici. With his sensual, dark style, he embodied the struggle of a conservator, mannerist painter, mostly […]