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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
4 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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What Is Theodicy?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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4 months ago
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
7 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
9 months ago
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Who Was Averroes?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
a month ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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