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Grit

January 28, 2020

Romalyn Ante Wolverhampton, England   My mother is right—my brother’s blood is getting dirtier. A nurse like me, she had read the result of his glomerular filtration rate, a test that measures how well the kidneys clean the blood. It had dropped below 15, an indication that his chronic renal failure was reaching its end […]

Fra Bartolommeo

January 26, 2017

Madonna and child 1514–16 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Girolamo Savanarola 1498 Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy Fra Bartolommeo (1472–1517), also known as Baccio della Porta, was a Florentine Renaissance painter and Dominican friar, active in Florence, Venice, and Rome. His work being largely religious in nature, his paintings Madonna and Child and Girolamo Savanarola […]