Asian and African Studies have just uploaded more than 15,000 images of Persian manuscripts online. This is the result of two years' work in an ongoing project sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation together with the Bahari Foundation, the Barakat Trust, the Friends of the British Library, the Soudavar Memorial...

From the godesses of Parthenon to the court ladies of China, here are ten pieces of art from human history that define beauty

In the fourth installment of Sarah J Maas’ fantasy series A Court of Thorns and Roses, Nesta and Cassian take center stage for an epic tale of personal growth, healing, and love.

From Ophelia to Captain Ahab, the novelist considers literature's most watery endings

Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first President of Britain’s Royal Arts Academy in the mid 1700s. He trumpeted a style known as Grand Style or History Painting, in which he contended that painter…

“Die Unschuld” (Innocence) by the German painter Sarah Flintzer(created on 19th century)

The rose has been associated with everything from debauchery to purity. Joobin Bekhrad explores the myths and meanings behind one of fashion’s favourite motifs.

It’s said that everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. And yet, if you take a look at photos of alluring people of the past, you simply can’t ignore their radiant appearances. Standards of “good looks” have changed over time, but the unique features and pure grace of people from that period are just mesmerizing.

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William Etty, Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body (detail), 1829

Recently, I stumbled on a portrait of a character I’ve loved from childhood (Tintin) created by an artist I admire (Roy Lichtenstein) that I had never seen before. Because it is my job to mak…

The Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece, Ophelia, by John Everett Millais was painted in Old Malden 1851 on the Hogsmill River. See how it looks now.

The rose has been associated with everything from debauchery to purity. Joobin Bekhrad explores the myths and meanings behind one of fashion’s favourite motifs.

Entre el nutrido listado de adictos ilustres al láudano se encuentra Elizabeth Siddal, musa de los prerrafaelistas y modelo de la pintura

**I received an ARC from the publisher through Netgalley. These are my honest opinions, and in no way was I compensated for this review.** Book: He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by…

The entire artistic output of Jakub Schikaneder is permeated by a sombre mood, bordering in places on a tragic existential feeling. In his oeuvre, the theme of a dead woman’s lifeless body appears recurrently from the early 1880s. However, this subject was not Schikaneder’s invention but a popular art formula of his time, symbolising ruin, despair and decay. In a study for this painting, the body of the murdered woman lies in the same, although reversed, position as the drowned woman. In 1893, the painter presented the sketch as a gift to the poet Jaroslav Vrchlický. The atmosphere of the pastel drawing perfectly evokes many of Vrchlický’s verses that could have also been the artist’s sources of inspiration. [National Gallery, Prague - Pastel on cardboard, 45.5 x 88 cm]

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