MY godfather, with whom I spent my early years, told me this during my first experiment with watercolour paints. He sensed my frustration as I attempted to ...

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables," but less known is his ...

Asharq Al Awsat French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables", but less known is his work as an illustrator -- now the subject of a new exhibition ...

Renaissance and Reformation Papacy: Art and corruption The Renaissance ... which led to the Pope being arrested and exiled by Napoleon’s forces. Historians noted that Pius VI’s papacy ...

His wife, for the record, stayed behind to try and salvage the White House art. They're responding very ... The War of 1812 grew out of a much larger war: Napoleon, who had seized power in France ...

Napoleon’s military prowess is legendary, even if the Napoleonic Wars ended with his second and final exile to St. Helena. Having been granted two alternate personas in Civ 7, we not only get to ...

Donne’s triumphant ‘Death, thou shalt die’ has nothing on the apophatic reversals of László Krasznahorkai’s metaphysics, where art exposes the scrim between ... of his ill-fated occupation of Moscow, ...

Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir ...

Lumon’s way of communicating the Eagan family’s ideals and beliefs is often through visual art. For the “Severance” artisans, using art to canonize the story of Lumon was “definitely ...

Most were made between 1850 and 1870, the period he was exiled to the island of Guernsey following a coup d'état in December 1851 by Napoleon III. It was while in exile that Hugo completed some ...