Bruce Herman

When we stand in a tradition we are not simply trying to maintain a status quo; we’re in the business of translating what is past into what is truly present and thereby extending and elaborating that tradition.

Karin Coonrod

I went a different direction: opening up the character to five actors of different age, size, race, gender. True, a five-actor Shylock would demand more of its audience: my hope was that the audience would find itself in Shylock.

Agnes Howard

Italy is dotted with monasteries of obscure identity, old purposes being forsaken, antiquity and cultural value arguing for their preservation. What should be done with an old hulk of a building, often vast and sturdily built, graced with art or good views or fine acoustics?

Agnes Howard

Art creates another significant link between Gordon College’s part of the globe and the Servite monastery in Orvieto. In a lush eclectic gallery of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston hangs a five-panel polyptych of the Virgin and Saints—a piece from the church of the Servi in Orvieto.

Damon Di Mauro

On March 17, 1541, a noblewoman of a certain age in widow’s weeds appeared before the door of the Convent of San Paolo in Orvieto, seeking refuge. According to Jacob Burckhardt, she was “the most famous woman” of sixteenth-century Italy.

Damon Di Mauro

Vittoria Colonna found in evangelismo a new outlet for her poetry, well suited to her own religious and lyric sensibilities.

Damon Di Mauro

Perhaps no other aspect of Vittoria’s life has been more scrutinized than her association with Michelangelo. We know that Vittoria and Michelangelo were in frequent contact during her stay at San Paolo.