Caravaggio & his world

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native ...

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship wit...

Abstract Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life, brought to an end by syphilis at the age of 31, he produced an...

Friedrich Froebel, the ‘father of kindergarten’, is one of the most influential educationalists of the 19th century, but relatively little is known about his life, and his successe...

Translated into English for the first time,My AnimalsandFlowersbring forth Theodor Lessing’s visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world...

Abstract Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slaver...

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of class...

Legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889-20 March 1968) was born in Copenhagen to a single mother, Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, a Swede. His Danish father, ...