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On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on the stage of Vienna's Theater am Kärntnertor, his back to a packed house....
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
By 1818, Ludwig van Beethoven could not hear a single note. The composer who had once filled Vienna's concert halls now lived in total silence,...
In the winter of 1748, Johann Sebastian Bach sat at his desk in Leipzig, his eyesight failing, his hands stiffened by age. He was sixty-three...
On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before a packed audience at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, his arms sweeping...
In the spring of 1877, a thirty-two-year-old Jesuit seminarian stood on the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, watching light move across...
In the spring of 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins walked the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where he was completing his theological...
At the bottom of nearly every manuscript he composed, Johann Sebastian Bach inscribed three Latin letters: S.D.G. — *Soli Deo Gloria*. To God alone be...
On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...
In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...
For four years, from 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood on scaffolding sixty-eight feet above the floor of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, painting...
In May 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins stood on the grounds of St. Beuno's College in North Wales and watched a kestrel ride the morning wind....