Revisionist history

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This painting, by the French artist Jean-François de Troy (c. 1679 -1752), re-creates one of the murderous scenes from the catastrophic end of the mythical Romance between Jason and Medea. Their story was a long one. Jason, a member of the royal family at Iolcos, was sent by his paranoid uncle, Pelias, on a quest […]

At age 87, Michelangelo said: “I am still learning.” Think about that! Amazing, isn’t it? I believe a very similar attitude beats inside the hearts of man

revisionist history (quote by Micah Adjani, thanks @nutritionalboy for the assist)

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Head of Constantine's colossal statue at the Capitoline Museums. The original statue of marble was acrolithic with the torso consisting of a cuirass in bronze.

A landmark Supreme Court case. A civil rights revolution. Why has everyone forgotten what happened next?

Book — Non-fiction. By Ronald Takaki, with a foreword by Clint Smith. 2023. 576 pages. A multicultural history of the United States, in the voices of Indigenous people, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others.