renaissance

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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Or maybe, Elizabeth Goldring impishly suggests in “Holbein: Renaissance Master,” he meant that he’d happily take Communion if only the table were more beautiful—dressed up, say, like a Catholic altar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Each piece in the Beverly Hills gallery, illuminated by an arched spotlight and flanked by a label chronicling its history, carried the aura of a Renaissance painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Neil Dutta, head of economics at Renaissance Macro Research, said tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is important.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

These similarities were obvious since the Renaissance, but mathematicians had to wait until the end of the French Revolution before they finally unraveled zero's big secret.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife