Sunday, November 15, 2009

Thomas Aquinas: sexist extraordinaire.

'As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.' Thomas Aquinas.

For all his intellectual genius, the great man was always capable of having an off day!

'New' Caravaggio on Display.

  “Caravaggio can freeze a moment — it’s hypnotic, magnetic and it’s coming home,” said Paola Nicita, an art historian who worked on the loa...