Ashley Couto

Ashley Couto is a PhD student in Medieval Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa studying late medieval tomb sculpture in Portugal. She is also an award-winning writer and journalist based in Montreal with bylines in Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel+Leisure, Observer, Queerty, etc.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Art & Art History

How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the United States, little aware of the appetites and inclinations of those who acquired them.

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Politics & History

Thurgood Marshall

In a speech marking the bicentennial of the US Constitution, Marshall argued that its framers intentionally inscribed slavery into the American economy.

Politics & History

Building the Olympic Games

A close connection between architecture, athletics, and the urban fabric is central to the idea of the modern Olympic Games.

Politics & History

Policing the Holocaust in Paris

Unlike in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe, the arrest of Jewish people was largely in the hands of ordinary policemen in France, especially in Paris.

Arts & Culture

Dorothy Richardson and the Stream of Consciousness

Though often associated with Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, “stream of consciousness” novels spilled first from the pen of British modernist Dorothy Richardson.

Education & Society

Endangered: North American Cricket

Cricket was played and cheered in the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century. Why did it fall out of favor with sports fans?

Ashley Couto

How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums

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