Aquarium of Vulcan

Statues have been associated with religion and spirituality from earliest recorded time to the present-day. 'From the M...

What is more beautiful than the Quincunx, which, however one views it, presents straight lines. - Quintilian Just how Sir Thom...

The angle from which a cast of Hubert Gerhard's highly dramatic sculpture Perseus and Medusa (above) has been photographed highli...

Emperor Leopold I in costume as  Acis in La Galatea. After his continental medical studies based at Padua, Montpellier and Leyden ...

In the foreground of an illustration in  Alchemia  (1606) by Andreas Libavius (above) two lions clash, locked in fusion upon imp...