Why have I suddenly become interested in the ceramics of Simon Porte Jacquemus? First, because they are beautiful) But in general these works refer us to the European ceramic tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries. Compare, for example, this faience dish with asparagus by the major French ceramicist Jacques Chapelle, Sceaux manufactory, Sèvres, 1760.
Created in 1795, this engraving by the celebrated English artist and sculptor John Flaxman illustrates one of the most dramatic scenes of Homer's Iliad. Before us is the moment when the goddess Thetis brings her son Achilles the new armour forged by the god Hephaestus. The mother finds
If an English actress takes the products of human combustion as a sedative, then the products of burning birch bark, scientists have found, may have been used by Neanderthals as an antibiotic. Researchers from the universities of Cologne, Oxford and Liège, and from Cape Breton University in Canada, have established
Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the eating of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and consume it so that the spirit of the
Edvard Munch's painting Summer Night on the Beach, executed in 1902, is a profound immersion in the atmosphere of Scandinavian melancholy. The canvas shows a deserted shore at Åsgårdstrand, the place where the artist spent his summer months and found inspiration for his most emotional works. Instead of