Nuclear cultural impacts can be analyzed through the nuclear allegory of Godzilla, Cold War literature, the dystopia of the ...

Today, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have (almost) all vanished, leaving behind only stories and fragments of their ...

Why are these muscular, athletic men—with angelic faces and broad chests—depicted with a phallus that seems ...

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

An essential figure of Viennese Symbolist painting, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his portraits and feminine ...

Known for painting the muse of a famous yogurt brand, Vermeer (1632-1675) is an essential Dutch artist of the Dutch Golden ...

Suleiman I, the most dazzling of the Ottoman sultans, illuminated the 16th century, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He was the legislator of an empire marked by prosperity and refinement. At the head of ...

After Chardin mentioned to a fellow painter that any sum of money was appreciated, even for a portrait, his friend replied, “Yes, if a portrait were as easy to paint as a sausage.” This remark made ...

Titian was an immensely successful artist during his lifetime, painting for Italian and international princes and kings. His ...

Founder of electromagnetism, André-Marie Ampère gave his name to the unit of electric current. His major work also shaped the vocabulary of electricity, and his inventions marked significant ...

To control the territory, the Roman Republic threw all its forces for more than a century (343-264 BCE) in a duel against the ...

The flamberge swords were incredibly lethal weapons, to the extent that in many armies it became customary to immediately retaliate against any prisoner found with a flamberge sword. The blade of the ...