The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

Thereafter, we get various views of Pietas, Madonnas (including the Medici Madonna), the Tomb of Lorenzo decorated by figures representing Dusk and Dawn, Moses, the Pieta of St. Peters (which, ...

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But he’s the most famous because his largely unlooted tomb revealed its wealth of golden artworks to a stunned world in 1922. Most famous among them all was his extraordinary death mask.

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The idea of such a burial seems first to have come to a chaplain at the Front, the Reverend David Railton (1884-1955), when he noticed in 1916 in a back garden at Armentières, a grave with a rough ...

Just seven states are expected to determine the outcome of the 2024 US Presidential elections. But it’s not always been those seven. We explain why that matters. Video by Ellenoor Shameli and ...