In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

An elaborate architectural fantasy or capriccio depicts the Old Testament story of the judgment of Solomon ... A great open arch defines the right side of the painting. Two solomonic columns flank the ...

From Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Pietà to Queens in 1964, by Ruth D. Nelson, a Three Hills book ...

European architecture has always been a mix of Gothic, Art Nouveau, and other architectural and art elements. There are huge ...

Although he never finished the painting for which it was intended ... The last decades of Michelangelo’s life encompass the “Last Judgment” (1536-41) and two important friendships—with Tommaso de’ ...