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Literature

Lord Byron: Poet, Politician, Protector

Lord Byron, Portrait detail by Phillips, 1813 By Sara Olsen – Ovid:  Metamorphosis XV.153 : “All Things Change;  Nothing Perishes”  George Gordon Byron, whom we can now call an influencer of the 19th century and beyond to the present, was born in London, England, in 1788 to Catherine Gordon Byron […]

Photo Essays

Pausing to Look and Remember

Cover image of Tony Hall book D-Day: Operation Overlord, 1993, Smithmark Books (Image in public domain) By Timothy J. Demy – I walked the beach alone. It was an early Sunday morning and for several hundred yards on either side of me there was no one. No sound, except for […]

History

Frederick the Great: An Enlightened Ruler 

By Leah Mordehai –  “A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.” Frederick the Great Why was Frederick II of Prussia an enlightened ruler? One of the most enlightened rulers of all time, Frederick […]

Art

Tamara de Lempincka and Art Deco

Tamara de Lempincka, Madonna, 1937 By P. F. Sommerfeldt – Tamara de Lempincka (1894-1980) was a gifted artist and an iconoclast, often considered a founding leader of the Art Deco movement from the 1920’s through the 1930’s. Art Deco was the perfect trope for an artist known for bold color, […]

Archaeologia

The Athenian Long Walls

By Jess Taylor – The defensive Athenian Long Walls were constructed over the course of the 5th Century BCE to maintain a secure corridor between the Athenian civic center, the city of Athens, and its principal port at Piraeus, located 7 km away.

Art

Philosophy and Poetry: The Partner Paintings of Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa, Philosophy, ca. 1645, image courtesy National Gallery London By Natalie Vander Pol – One of the most moving pieces to me personally in the National Gallery is undoubtedly Philosophy by Salvator Rosa (ca. 1645), which symbolizes both a love story and a bond between human thought and art.  At first […]