In the mid 19th century Yorkshire industrialists who had been on the Grand Tour – a traditional foreign trip undertaken by ...

In the spring of 1181 or 1182, in the hill town of Assisi, a wealthy cloth merchant’s son was born into comfort and expectation. Baptized Giovanni but quickly nicknamed Francesco by his father, he ...

(The Conversation) — Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation still resonates. (The Conversation) — On the 800th ...

On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, his body will be displayed for the first time ever in February 2026, at the Basilica of San Francesco.

CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

This image is a detail from the fresco “Noli me tangere” by the Italian painter Giotto di Bondone. Credit: Public Domain. Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps ...

At that time: When Jesus had cast out a demon, some of the crowd said, 'He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons', while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.

Like St Francis, Giotto was a great traveller and worked all over Italy. To see his greatest surviving works today, you need to journey from Florence to Padua in the Veneto and Assisi in Umbria. The ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to ...