A ring of human skulls originally circled 16th-century magician John Dee in a painting by the English artist Henry Gillard Glindoni. Henry Gillard Glindoni, “John Dee performing an experiment before ...
British painting in 1837 -- Rebellion and official patronage -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- The predominance of genre -- The return to Greece and Rome -- The Victorian exotics -- Later landscape painting, ...
During the night of September 7 1936, the last remaining thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, popularly referred to by the name of “Benjamin” since his death, died in the Hobart Zoo. The official cause of ...
The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 by Giuseppe Gabrielli. Government Art Collection A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of ...