A 16th-century Roman palazzo in the heart of the ancient city is now for sale, asking €13.4 million (US$14.3 million). The historic Palazzo Berardi is in the city center, off the quiet Piazza ...
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A proud knight, entirely devoted to his daimyo (lord). This myth was revealed to the West in the last third of the 19th century, with the country’s opening to foreigners, the wave of Japonisme, and ...
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From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...
As the European Film Market kicks off Feb. 13 in Berlin with a new market head, Tanja Meissner, at the helm, this year’s ...
The Capitoline Museums in Rome have just today opened an exhibition exploring the history of The Farnese in sixteenth-century Rome. The show draws together one hundred and ... added that Titian ...
One of the defining features of the social-justice orthodoxy that swept through American culture between roughly the death of ...