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.
The cemetery is the burial place of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington. While Tillâs grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery. The 14-year-old Chicagoan was killed in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman during a visit to his uncleâs house in Mississippi. Nearly 100,000 people visited the casket during a four-day public viewing in Chicago, and images of his battered body helped spark the civil rights movement.