Sandro Botticelli, Representative of the Golden Age of the Early Italian Renaissance
Sandro Botticelli, (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a “golden age”, a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous […]
Biden-Xi Engage in Bridge Building, Agree to Resume Military Communications
In a significant development, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on the outskirts of San Francisco on November 16, showing tangible progress in their first face-to-face encounter in a year. The talks yielded the resumption of military contact and a direct line of communication between both countries, which China severed after […]