Choose your own quest at the Northern California Renaissance Faire

Want to cheer jousting knights? Gnaw on a turkey leg? Throw sharp objects? The Ren Faire in Hollister lets you play with the past.
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Northern California Renaissance Faire offers one last weekend to eat, drink and be merry

Dandies wearing lace ruffs, sword swallowers, jousters and others will be disporting during the last weekend of the 20 th Annual Northern California Renaissance Faire in Hollister coming up Oct. 19 ...
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The Infamous Renaissance War in Northern Italy, Where Everyone Changed Sides Several Times in 8 Years and in the End Everything Stayed the Same

Julius II was not nicknamed the Terrible Pope for nothing. He has gone down in History as the pontiff who sponsored artists ...
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New exhibit at New London art museum shows a centuries-old vision of the apocalypse

Lyman Allyn Art Museum showcases woodcuts by Revolutionary printmaker Albrecht Dürer. Many of them are from his Apocalypse ...
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Lavinia Fontana Masterpiece Rediscovered After 150 Years in Museum Storage

A small museum in northern France has announced the surprise discovery of a new masterpiece by Lavinia Fontana, one of the most celebrated woman painters of the Italian Renaissance. The lost work had ...