Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome

3D model of a replica of the statue described below. Legend has it that the statue was found in a barn wall on the farm at Skriðuklaustur. Carved from oak, it is 71 cm tall and was...

New acquisition, June 2014: View of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome by Constantin Hansen Nationalmuseum has expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of a view of Rome wi...

This view of Hackney Church was taken from Pig Well, one of several nearby wells known for the purity of their water.In medieval times, the church had been dedicated to St Augustin...

This drawing shows the beautiful interior of St James Church. It was built by the Granville family at the end of the 15th century in the perpendicular style and is considered one o...

During the 1870s, on returning from his lengthy tour of Europe and the Near East, Church supervised the construction of Olana, a grand neo-Persian-style mansion where he would spen...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

All Saints Church was burnt down in 1675, and rebuilt between 1676 and 1680. The portico was finished in 1701. Travelogue author Celia Fiennes visited the church during its rebuild...