The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers ...
Continue Reading →Leo Allatius was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library.His works are listed by Johann Albert Fabricius, in Bibliotheca Graeca (xi. 437), ...
Continue Reading →The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the ...
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