The late Queen Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in 1926, ruled for longer than any other monarch in British history. During her 70-year reign, the late Queen was much loved and ...

An altarpiece commissioned for the church of San Sisto in Piacenza, this work depicts a cloud-borne Mary and Christ ... summa of visuality in Italian Renaissance painting, Raphael’s ...

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the ...

Mix the salt, pepper and oregano together and rub all over the roast. Set aside. Heat the oil in a large skillet and brown the roast well on all sides. This is a really important step because it ...

Bibbs' mother took to the stand, spoke directly to the defendants and said, "No matter what the sentence is, you get to call your loved ones. I can't call my son. Heaven doesn't have a phone." ...

Even after she and Andrew divorced in a flurry of tabloid headlines, she and his mother remained close. In the queen’s final years, Fergie, who still lives with Andrew at the Royal Lodge on the ...

(The reuse of a narrower existing canvas is why he needed to add a strip to accommodate the queen’s voluminous dress.) An X-ray of the under-painting published by the late Velázquez scholar ...

‘Mary is cool. Not only do I love her but she’s so cool.’” Caruso believes portraying the human side to divine figures as well as holy figures, such as the Blessed Mother, “makes them ...

Meaning that painting, specifically figuration, is having yet another renaissance. In this case, it is figuration that extends the idea of the figure through all manner of fourth walls, as a younger ...

Mary, a young woman from Nazareth chosen to become the mother of mankind’s messiah ... also accentuates the compelling storytelling and reveals a side of the Queen of All Saints that is seldom seen on ...