Showing posts with label Cambridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambridge. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts


Endless forms is the title of the exhibition in Cambridge for the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. It is collocated within the Fitzwilliam Museum, the second most important museum in England, after London, that contains a plenty of wonderful paintings from Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish painters from the XVI to the XX century and arts from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near and the Far East.

Monday, August 3, 2009

The christian heritage in Cambridge



Cambridge is famous all over the world for its 28 university colleges, where great authors like John Milton, scientists like Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton, politicians like sir Herbert Pembroke studied. But what is to remember is that the cultural background of the town gown is christian. In fact the presence of a church in the first millennium, the Round Church like the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem witnesses the faith in Jesus as the Roman Emperor Constantine wanted the Church to be built.