"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

24 June 2023

Happy Birthday, Dr. Weller


Peter Weller, born on this day in 1947, has turned his life around ...
Peter Weller, an actor best known for playing the title character in the 1987 film "RoboCop," is also a scholar and Renaissance art historian. He enrolled in Syracuse University's summer Italian art program with Professor Gary Radke when he was 51. Three years later, he entered the Syracuse Florence Italy graduate program, earning a master's degree in Italian Renaissance art history. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history at UCLA in 2014.

The series he did for History, Engineering an Empire, is outstanding.

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