Service abroad could be not only a stepping stone to higher office, but also a way to become "more noble than noble" through the patronage of art and architecture. What They Talked About When They ...

It turns out that even history’s most successful artists occasionally recycled their own canvases. A revered religious ...

Churches hung with Renaissance art masterpieces. A canal view down every street. Gondolas weaving their way between ferries and transport barges. Sunset on the lagoon. Venice is everyone's dream city.

Ironically, “minimal” could never be said of the body of work Kiefer would produce over the next fifty years, becoming, in the process, a giant of contemporary art with works of immense ... unique ...