23 May 1498: Girolamo Savonarola #Dominican preacher & visionary burnt at the stake in #Florence#otd only months after he & his followers had been lighting bonfires of vanities (M SanMarco)
Tomorrow evening, quite a special event:
I will be at Villa Galilei in the hills around #Florence, where Galileo spent his latest years of home imprisonment, to speak about how the human brain and the cosmic web might look alike, through the lens of #complex_networks analysis and together with my (neurosurgeon) colleague.
Events organized by Inaf and University of Florence. https://portalegiovani.comune.fi.it/urlnews/webzine/48720.html
Hearing this #TaylorSwift and #Florence+TheMachine track on #YNotRadio and it's a banger, but the lyrics are way weaker than they could be, especially for something that namechecks both Florida and Texas.
What's an example of a work of art (literature, music, poetry, theater, painting, whatever) that you've had a spiritual experience with? (Take this how you'd like...at one with the universe, in touch with God, deeply aware of something larger than yourself; however you think of it is fine.)
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On Holy Thursday, here is: The Last Supper by Sister Plautilla Nelli, 1524-1588 #Dominican Prioress of the convent of St. Catherine of Siena #Florence, done in the 1560s.
"‘Dust is everywhere’: rare glimpse of how Michelangelo’s David is kept clean" by Angela Giuffrida #TheGuardian
"Michelangelo’s David is recognised as one of the most sublime works in the history of sculpture, but according to the director of Florence’s Accademia Gallery, dusting it is much like cleaning a bathroom.
“You know when you clean a bathroom, you clean and clean and think you’ve done a great job but then you spot some dust and wonder ‘where did that come from?’,” Cecilie Hollberg said on Monday. “This is what it’s like. Dust is everywhere.”
Once every two months, the Accademia Gallery’s in-house restorer Eleonora Pucci clambers up the side of scaffolding assembled around the 5.17-metre-tall figure and gets to work on dusting David’s marble locks and perfectly toned muscles, using a vacuum and fine brushes and cloths."