The painting shows the last minutes of one of ... Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s ...
Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Realist painters of the Russian Empire. Born in present-day Ukraine, he traveled ...
Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...
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Jo Baer, who was a key protagonist of the minimalist painting movement in 1960s New York, has died age 95. She is survived by ...
In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...
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No matter how bad things got for Israel Vazquez, you couldn’t wipe the smile off his face. Although plagued later in life by serious vision problems, an MS diagnosis and the cancer that cost him his ...
An art museum on the Left Bank of the Seine ... and freshness. In the 1550s, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating troops discovered.