Art and Architecture, mainly

Model of the Goethe House before the renovation in 1775 Frankfurt was hit by a very large air raids of WW2 in March 1944. Av­oid­ing Germa...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo   (1526–93) was c36 when he left Italy to be­come a court portraitist to  Hapsburg emperors Ferdinand I, Max­imil­ian II...

Theophyl­ac­t­us of Tusculum  (c1020–c1056) became the youngest pope ever as  Pope Benedict IX . The date of his birth was uncer­t­ain but ...

My maternal grandmother had 3 daughters, the oldest being my mother. My mother had 3 children, with me being the oldest. I knew that having ...

Duke and Duchess of Windsor,  wedding day June 1937  photograph by Cecil Beaton.  Britannica A familiar story was that handsome, popula...