Last year we discussed in a pair of essays works of art which we said created the experience they depicted. We saw some which pulled the vie...

Is 1921 really so long ago? It doesn't seem so. They had motorcars and electricity, indoor plumbing and pantaloons. Alright, clearly muc...

As readers may be aware, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is held in especially high esteem in this corner of the internet. In my s hort piece on The...

The common, perhaps predominant, concept of the artist is someone who expresses himself in his art, both as virtuoso and an individual with...

Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius' biological father. 1. I am indebted to my grandfather Verus for his good disposition and swee...