The muff as part of the male wardrobe of the 18th century in a drawing
The weather is clearly no longer summery, but the cold is still some way off? A muff! The sound solution for the progressive gentleman of the eighteenth century
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James Heath's 1806 engraving after Fuseli showing Patroclus's shade before Achilles
The engraving by the celebrated English master James Heath, executed in 1806 after an original drawing by the eminent Swiss-British artist Henry Fuseli, re-creates one of the most mystical and poignant scenes of Book XXIII of the Iliad. It is the moment when the Greek hero Achilles tries
New exhibition on animals in the work of the artist opens at the Eugène Delacroix Museum
The Eugène Delacroix Museum has unveiled a new small-scale thematic display devoted to animals in his work
Bronze cover of Salvador Dalí's “Book of the Apocalypse” stolen from museum in Issoire
A French museum has once again fallen victim to a brazen theft. On the night of Sunday, the cover of a book created by Salvador Dalí was stolen from a small private museum of modern art in the town of Issoire in central France. The cover weighs around 150 kilograms,
Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina
A server holds the phelonion of Father Photius Parks during the mass baptism of adults at the mission of Saint Anthony the Great of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At present, about 24% of all Orthodox Christians in the United States are adults who have