Jules Michelet (1798 – 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.In his 1855 work, Histoire ...
Continue Reading →“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been ...
Continue Reading →Rising on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a tiered bronze ...
Continue Reading →Publication-dates are carried by all plates – ranging from Mar. 1 1817 to Sep. 1 1819. The work was published serially. After travelling ...
Continue Reading →This was the first detailed catalogue of the ancient statuary collected in the British Museum. The Museum had only recently created its Department ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt: Whether we regard the Grecian attire of the head or of the body, it is precisely that of the earliest and rudest ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt from Dactyliotheca Smithiana, Vol. 1: Gemmarum Ectypa Et Antonii Francisci Gorii Enarrationes Complectens Aòfiulit atm diu, (s’ funere merfit acerbo. Hifioriam ergo ...
Continue Reading →The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated: with the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved, to which is prefixed, an introductory preface, ...
Continue Reading →The work describes the villa – or rather, fortress-palace – which the Emperor Diocletian built at Split (the ancient Aspalathos) on his abdication ...
Continue Reading →Wood visited Syria and Greece in 1750-1, with Bouverie, Dawkins and Borra – at the same time as their friends Stuart and Revett ...
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