Pueblo Opera House
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The Pueblo Opera House was a theater built in Pueblo, Colorado, and opened in 1890. The building was completely destroyed by a fire in 1922.
1912 postcard with a photograph of the Pueblo Opera House
Italian Renaissance
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The Italian Renaissance is a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It is the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread from Italy to the rest of Euro
Portrait of Dante Alighieri by Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Uffizi Gallery Florence, 1552–1568
Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), lord of Rimini, by Piero della Francesca. Malatesta was a capable condottiere, following the tradition of his family. He was hired by the Venetians to fight against the Turks (unsuccessfully) in 1465, and was the patron of Leone Battista Alberti, whose Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini is one of the first entirely classical buildings of the Renaissance.
Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici by Jacopo Pontormo (c. 1518–1520)
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Man, 1512