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The Frick Art & Historical Center presents The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London featuring 39 paintings by 17 masters of the Dutch Italianate style from the collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, called the best small museum in all of Europe.

More than a century after Andrew Carnegie financed a free public library in the Port City, the red sandstone building endures as a monument to the philanthropist's belief in the enriching power of culture and learning.

A hoard of historic finds, including Roman pottery, medieval remains and the bones of an 11th-century dog have been found at the heart of Cambridge University during an excavation to mark its 800th anniversary.

If clothes make the man, can costumes create a world on a stage? What sensuous robes will create a Queen of the Nile, what armor will make a Roman hero? In the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production of ''Antony and Cleopatra,'' opening Wednesday, ancient Alexandria and Rome are evoked with costumes as scenery and actors as architecture.

It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization.

The Christ child's adoration by the Magi is called the Epiphany because it announces his mission to redeem all mankind.

It's a moment fixed in a distant time, yet you're experiencing it on a cliff high above the Pacific Ocean and modern Los Angeles.

If you enjoy refined, dignified Adam homes, then you can thank the Scottish-born architect who inspired the style.

With the multitude of events in the parks, squares, art galleries and around monuments, scheduled for summer in Rome , you can combine sightseeing with many leisure or cultural activities during your stay in the Eternal city.

For any Shakespeare geek residing in Central Texas, we can imagine no greater treat than to watch one of his plays performed on the "wooden O" that is The Curtain Theatre .

Commenting on a 3rd-century fresco of St. Paul, newly discovered in a Roman catacomb, the director of the Vatican Museums notes that the portrait seems deliberately fashioned to evoke comparisons between St.

As it gets dark on July evenings, you can find a sparsely populated area of the sky located just above our southern horizon that harbors the constellation Norma.

In her book, A Classical Education, Caroline Taggart says the ancient Greek and Roman influence is still alive and well in many aspects of the modern world, from language, architecture and science to art, maths and astronomy.

Recent findings from a castle 60 kilometres away from the capital reveal new historical information changing the way people view the evolution of the Arab identity and the entire region, experts say.

The simple exterior of the 226,000-square-foot building, designed by Swiss American architect Bernard Tschumi, was intended to resemble the nearby Parthenon .

At first glance, it looks nice. But scratch the surface and St Albans embodies many of the aesthetic problems besetting England's cities The news that St Albans is on the English Heritage register of conservation areas at risk may astonish visitors to the beautiful Hertfordshire city, with its glorious abbey, medieval buildings and parks, as well ...

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009 at 1559 hrs IST AS they used to say in Roman gladiatorial circles, it's all very well to be young and fresh and strong, but ultimately, what wins you the crowd's applause is experience.

AS THE age old saying goes - Rome wasn't built in a day, wtries Tristan Nichols .

Roman Kuhn proposed in his blog on product definition in the metals industry to introduce material levels on more production levels than raw material and finished goods.

FIRST it was the a 100m mansion, now it's JP McManus's elaborate new entrance to the house that's stopping traffic.