Okay. You know how sometimes artists put other art into their own art?

Like how Petrus Christus put an illuminated prayer to St. Veronica in the background of this portrait of a young man, or a woodcut of St. Elizabeth in this portrait of a female donor?

Or Hans Sebald Beham’s dancing peasants cavorting on the mantelpiece of Frans Huys’ lute-maker’s shop?

Well, I’ve gone and built a linkspage with all that.

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From Discovery News:

Scientists who exhumed the remains of several members of the Medicis, the clan that dominated the Florentine Renaissance, have conclusively dismissed the theory of family murders, solving a more than 400-year-old cold case.

Malaria, not poison as long rumored, killed Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, according to research to be published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

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“Les routes de l’Arabie - Trésors archéologiques du Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite” is at the Louvre through September 27.

“Parigi val bene una messa”: L’omaggio dei Medici a Enrico IV re di Francia is at the Medici Chapels in Florence through November 2.

Per utilità e per diletto: Cittadini in Villa, at the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi and the Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum through October 10, “is intended to investigate the cultural and ideological aspects that qualified the villa system between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries.”

Through August 21, Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine is at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM; Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library in Christiansburg, VA; and the Ela Area Public Library District in Lake Zurich, IL.