In her immensely popular 2000 novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier created a fictional backstory for a famous 17th century work of art. In her new book, The Lady and the Unicorn (Dutton; ...
Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...
Relics from the tomb of medieval English king Richard II and sketches of his skull and bones have been discovered in boxes in the basement of the National Portrait Gallery. Objects thought to have ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. George Kennedy of Hobart has been crowned the winner of the 2019 RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portrait Prize ...
The story seems as if it were pulled straight from the script of the movie “National Treasure”: a priceless old book, hidden messages, and a young American who pieces it all together. Instead of ...
It's not every Saturday afternoon you’re greeted by a 14-foot knight in shining armour sitting on a giant horse. But this was no ordinary Saturday, as we were checking in to Warwick Castle's new ...