A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...
Darius the Great, King of the Persians, came up with the first art political logo, with Alexander the Great later expanding on the concept by imprinting his face on coins that flooded his empire.
The idea of America has played a variety of roles in European consciousness. Early on, in the mid eighteenth century when America was only emerging, George Berkeley remarked while in New England that ...
To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina ... their ...
This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To appreciate a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting be savored by ...
The city of Vijayanagara was systematically destroyed and plundered in the course of the next five months and is today mostly a ruin. The empire managed to survive until 1646, but much of it ...