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Simon Elliott explains how Rome was reshaped by this all-conqu
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture
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July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows
Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa
Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?