The “New Science” of Galileo, Kepler, Harvey, Descartes, Boyle, Steno, etc., and the Baroque in visual arts and literature, are two conspicuous aspects of seventeenth-century European elite culture. If standard historiography of science can be relied upon, the former of the two was not affected by the latter. The lecture asks whether this is a “fact of history” or an artefact of historiography....

Received: 5 August 2005 Revised: 24 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 What happens if we abandon thinking about information systems (IS) in terms of fixed prescriptions or scientific models? What happens if we leave behind order, simplicity, sequence, and linearity, and in turn, embrace the sensuous, dramatic, vital, messy, and emotional? What a project for IT researchers! In this brie...

During the special showing of the Holy Shroud at Turin in Spring 2010, an art exhibit at the Venaria Reale – the Savoy hunting palace just outside the city – will focus on Western artists’ interest in the body of Christ as subject. With works of painting and sculpture from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period (and some earlier pieces), the exhibit will parallel the religious event, sheddi...

Giovanni Battista Passeri (c.1610-1679) who was an Italian painter, a poet and priest, wrote baroque artist’s biographies that contain the life of Francesco Borromini one greatest architect Baroque.