We are all familiar with the many reasons why we should fight poverty. Poor people do not have enough money to meet their basic needs, are excluded from society, are often not given proper respect, or can become easy prey at the hands of others who want to dominate them. In the domains of both material and immaterial goods, there is a widespread understanding about what it means w…
Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially denotes a group of artists or artworks, it came to be configured in multiple ways, encompassing different meanings of learning, origin, style, or nati…
Robert Langdon, profesor simbologi dan ikonologi agama Universitas Harvard, tiba di Museum Guggenheim yang supermodern untuk menghadiri pengumuman besar tentang penemuan yang “akan mengubah dunia sains.” Tuan rumah acara malam hari itu adalah Edmond Kirsch, seorang miliuner dan Futuris berusia empat puluh tahun. Kirsch adalah sosok yang terkenal di seluruh dunia, berkat penemuan-penemuan te…
Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan bagi mereka yang tetap bersikap neteral di saat krisis moral. Tengah malam, Robert Langdon terbangun di rumah sakit dan syok saat mendapati dirinya ada di Florence, Italia. Padahal, ingatan terakhirnya adalah berjalan pulang setelah memberi kuliah di Harvard. Belum sempat Langdon memahami keganjilan ini, dunianya meledak dalam kekacauan. Di depan mata, dok…