Did you know Michelangelo and Leonardo couldn’t stand one another?
In the first decade of the sixteenth century, the arch rivals were asked to create murals on the same wall of the Council Hall of Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The same… Read More
In medieval times, many household containers were made of an orange clay called pygg. When housewives had spare coins, they collected them in their pygg banks. Around the end of the 18th century, an unknown ceramist formed a pygg bank into a pig shape.
source: Mistakes that Worked (36-7)