Here are just a few historical highlights, especially about art and astronomy.

Art historian Sister Wendy passed away earlier this week. (Read more about her here.)

This is an interesting read: “Max Beckmann Bequest is a Bonus and Burden for Berlin Museums”

“A Spanish academic has embarked on a five-year quest to rescue the works of female writers from the margins of European thought and give them the recognition they have been denied for centuries.”

More than 300 years before people set foot on the moon, a Polish astronomer created an atlas of the moon.

Enjoy the last weekend of the year… I’ll be back on Monday with my December favourites.