If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at a glance it conveys the style and atmosphere of the ...

They have failed to define the age. Gustave Flaubert—herald of modernism, obsessive word-hound, and austere champion of l’art pour l’art—was the other, rarer sort: the sort that, having broken new ...

In the final weeks of May 1871, French president Adolphe Thiers ordered soldiers to lay waste to the Paris Commune, resulting in massacres across the city. It is impossible to look at French art in ...

By the first century CE, Ephesus was already ancient. Established sometime around 1000 BCE in what is now Turkey on with ...