Visual and Musical Arts bring beauty into our lives. These stories explore and reveal the inspiration behind great artworks, the challenges to create them and their impact on the world.
During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.
The Irish Poor Laws, intended to help the most-desperate people of the country, actually harmed them when landowners who were responsible for tenant f...
As economic conditions grew desperate for Irish people, during the potato famine, residents of entire villages abandoned their homeland in search for ...
During the first part of his reign, Tsar Ivan IV was not known as "Ivan the Terrible." That moniker came later, after his first wife died and he emplo...
It was Joe Rosenthal who took the famous flag-raising photo at Iwo Jima.
When the Irish potato famine caused people to lose their homes, some individuals - like Judy O'Donnel - found "habitation" under a bridge.
This 19th-century illustration, called Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, is an artistic rendering of Julius Caesar's famous decision to defy Roman law.
The Hubble Space Telescope took this stunning image of the Keyhole Nebula (which is located within the Carina Nebula [NGC 3372] and is about 8,000 lig...
Beyond the beauty of the death mask of King Tut, what does it mean? How was it worn?
The Easter Story has been depicted by artists for centuries, especially during Medieval and Renaissance times. Da Vinci's "Last Supper," a fresco in a...
Harold Richmond, a philanthropist, grew-up loving Sir Thomas Clapperton’s "Wonderland" sculpture located in Oamaru, on New Zealand’s South Island.
Leo X, a member of the de' Medici family, had an eventful papacy. In addition to ordering Martin Luther to withdraw 41 of his 95 Theses, Leo X designe...
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