under which Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions such as palaces at Ctesiphon, Firuzabad, and Sarvestan that are amongst ...

A Christian knight confronts life's temptations in Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving, considered by many to be the pinnacle of printmaking. Knight, death, and the devilIn 1513 artist Albrecht ...

A TASTE for art usually comes to us somewhat late in life, because, in nine cases out of ten, the taste is not cultivated or developed till long after school life. We have, in fact, no regular art ...