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Ecco Homo Jacques de l'Ange is an extremely obscure Dutch painter of the 17th century. There were some paintings in European museums sig...

It struck me as I was working on this post that the Rothschilds, the great bankers of nineteenth-century Europe and once the focus of a thou...

The Moscow oil refinery today, after a massive Ukrainian attack with several different families of drones and cruise missiles. Part of the p...

Sebastiano del Piombo ( c. 1485 – 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods. He was born and trained ...

This small bronze statue is identified as Laran, the ancient Etruscan god of war. The Romans equated him straight out with Mars, although so...

Carl Gustav Carus,  Morning Bells (Old German City in the Morning Light) What happened to industrial workers as manufacturing work shifted f...

The latest big new museum is the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which houses the art collection of George Lucas and his wife...

Me, ten days after heart surgery, showing off one of the first printed copies of The Voice from the Darkness .  I have written about 50 page...

Cortona is a famous Tuscan town on a hilltop overlooking the Val di Chiana. The place has been occupied since Etruscan times is now a regula...