When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

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From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

EDINBURGH boasts a hidden gem often likened to the Sistine Chapel, offering visitors a breathtaking view of floor-to-ceiling ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

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It turns out that even history’s most successful artists occasionally recycled their own canvases. A revered religious ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

If you have ever dreamed of seeing the Sistine Chapel for yourself but are unable to travel to Vatican City, Edinburgh is ...

The extraordinary life of the outstanding artist of the 16th Century. Hans Holbein the Younger became court painter to Henry VIII and was regarded as a phenomenon in his day for his ability to bring ...

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