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Standing tall in the Museum Square of Amsterdam, the Van Gogh Museum preserves paintings, drawings and the history of Van Gogh and his contemporaries.
Best remembered for the story that gave us the ballet The Nutcracker, ETA Hoffmann wrote many uncanny, supernatural tales. Here are five of them.
The bright colors for which Vincent van Gogh is recognized today came after a much darker phase in his color palette.
Elsa Schiaparelli fused Surrealism and couture to transform the female body into a site of imagination, subversion, and art.
Jane Austen’s novels advocated virtuous living, drawing on Aristotelian ideas of virtue and implicit Christian virtues to find the middle path to happiness.
An ancient Greek ideal with a German name, the Gesamtkunstwerk's influence stretched from Wagner's operas to the foundations of modern art.
As American forces fought an unpopular war in Vietnam, protests raged across the United States. During this time, music served as a catalyst for change.
In the USSR, prosecuted Orthodox Christian clergymen ran underground monasteries and maintained their traditions despite propaganda, oppression, and mass executions.
