Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...

Committed to launching new and fresh initiatives, Benalmadena is establishing itself as a multicultural hub and an ...

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an ...

At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It was a friendship that would benefit art history.

The time will come, though you and I will not be present to witness it, when most everything about our era is forgotten, just as we’ve forgotten most everything about the semi-distant past.

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The piles of bones found there paint a picture of a vision conspicuously similar to ... that figure in his teachings; and Socrates has a flat nose and a humble attitude. After speaking with Socrates, ...

Vincent gave his sister Wil a vivid description of his friend in a letter: “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high-coloured ...

Instead of Abraham, it continues, instead of Buddha, Jesus, Socrates and Tolstoy ... from a bridge on a Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway after painting the message “First of all, the hostages!” ...