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In a city as beautiful as Florence, which feels equal parts like a Renaissance jewel box and a vibrant living city, a room with a view (as in E.M. Forster’s immortal novel of the same name, based in ...

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With its cute limestone cottages curving across green Somerset hills, Bruton has long been a handsome, if unassuming, market ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...

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Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural ...

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A New Biography Offers the Most Intimate Portrait Yet of One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Authors Research into James Baldwin’s archives reveals incisive details about the writer’s ...

The Portuguese School, 16th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. What is Portuguese School, ...