Apollo and Artemis Attacking the Children of Niobe by Jacques-Louis David, 1772 (public domain - Wikipedia) “Grief, loss, regret are not t...
All in the Family
Saturn Devouring his Son by Francisco de Goya, c. 1820 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons) “The family is the test of freedom; because t...
Cultural (Il)literacy

Detail from The Triumph of History Over Time (Allegory of the Museum Clementinum, ceiling fresco) by Anton Raphael Mengs (public domain - ...
Ars Gratia Artis

Photo of "Leo the Lion" being recorded for his roar to be heard at the beginning of MGM films , 1928 (public domain - Wikipedia)...
The Common Denominator of Success

A view of the Endeavour's watering place in the Bay of Good Success , by Alexander Buchan, 1769 (public domain — Wikimedia Commons) “It...
Manufacturing Fame

Apotheosis of Napoleon III by Guillaume-Alphonse Harang Cabasson, 1854 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons) “Two centuries ago when a grea...
Who Is Your Éminence Grise?

L ’ Eminence Grise by Jean-Léon Gérôme (public domain — Wikimedia Commons) “Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be...
Is the Past Really Prologue?

Via Appia at the height of Quarto Miglio , Vincenco Giovannini, 1884 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) “The less a man knows about the past...