John Bensalhia recalls the era of the High Renaissance and looks at the work and influence of some of the great artists of that period... The Renaissance: A period of cultural rebirth. Its influence can still be felt today, and one of the greatest legacies out of this era is the artwork.
It has taken only a scant 48 hours for the Aaron Hernandez memorabilia business to start booming. Dirt has come tumbling out of his life in the hours after his death. He purportedly waxed the floor of his cell with soap in order to make sure he would slip and break his neck whether the hanging worked or not. His body will be buried without a brain, which seems fitting, as his lawyers want Boston University to study this organ for concussion damage. Chico, as he was called and not in deference to the Marx Brothers comedy team, was said to have written John 3:16 in blood on the wall, but in red ink on his own forehead.
FALL RIVER, Mass. â Jury selection in the murder trial of a friend of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is getting started. Ernest Wallace's trial gets underway Thursday in Superior Court in Fall River. Hernandez and Wallace are from Bristol, Conn. Wallace is charged with murder in the June 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park in North Attleborough, near the Rhode Island border.