History Painting: Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno (1785) by Angelica Kauffman.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Younger, was born in 61 CE in Comum (modern-day Como). AsContinue Reading
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A brief history of ‘The Dance of Death’.
Many amazing works of art have been found painted on the outside walls of cloisters, of family vaults, of ossuariesContinue Reading
Richard Samuel’s ‘Portrait in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’ (1778).
I must confess my interest in Richard Samuel’s ‘Portrait in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’Continue Reading
Behind the legend of Santa Claus exists a humble saint.
Does St. Nicholas deserve his place amongst humanities most kindest, gentlest, generous and loving individuals to have walked this earth?Continue Reading
Celebrating Christ: Where was Jesus born?
The Christian gospels of Luke and Matthew have long described how Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem inContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Thaïs of Athens with Torch’ by Joshua Reynolds, 1781.
The notorious events surrounding the burning of the great ancient Persian capital of Persepolis in 330 BCE by Alexander TheContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Hadrian Visiting A Romano British Pottery’ (1884) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Relatively early in the complex state that was the Roman Empire, a man named Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), became theContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1863.
The first truly organised persecution of Christians came after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD under the EmperorContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ by Théodore Géricault, 1819.
The depiction of a group of survivors from the French ship Méduse, which ran aground on the west coast ofContinue Reading
Careful what you wish for from the Reliquary Statue of St.Foy
St.Foy, also known as St.Faith, was martyred in 303 CE during the last great persecutions of Christians in the townContinue Reading
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