She was the opera diva who had a tumultuous and tragic private life, but while these added to her myth, something else ...
From demanding diva to heartbroken lover who gave it all up for a man, the iconography of Callas ... But, separating the woman from the world-famous soprano known as “La Divina” – the ...
With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...
Dolce & Gabbana,” an opulent exhibition dedicated to the brand’s high fashion collections, was consistently sold out over its ...
One European city, nestled in a beautiful and history region, is home to eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites that present some ...
and celebrated Greek 20 th Century artist Fassianos. Fassionas was inspired by Ancient Greece and also influenced by byzantine iconography. His grandfather was priest and he spent time during his ...
Bacchanal backlash Sixteenth-century German Protestants, eager to remove the iconography and relics of ... Sarah Hale, the author most famous for her children’s poem “Mary had a Little Lamb ...
At the top of the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, the most famous staircase in cinema history ... in the words of Tsar Nicholas I. A secret Greek society plotted the war for independence from the ...
The artists of Greek and Roman antiquity mostly used wooden ... The so-called Fayum portraits are among the most famous encaustic paintings. Many were found at the Roman-Egyptian burial site ...
Almost all agrarian societies independently venerated the Sun in their pantheon of gods at one time or another – there was the Sol of the Norse, the Aztec Huitzilopochtli, the Greek Helios.
According to the Mirror, it is the city of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region. It is literally filled with history, and all ...