AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Heritage craftsmen working overtime to restore lost Beirut beauty
Lebanese stained glass artist Maya Husseini had hoped to retire after decades of designing colourful windows, but now she is overwhelmed with requests after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut. In neighbourhoods near the port, the...
Bridgeman Arts
The Descent from the Cross
The central panel of a triptych by Rubens, in which the artist reconstructed the last moments of the sacrifice at the Calvary in a complex composition of figures and volumes influenced by Caravaggio.
History Tube
The 17th Century: Gateway to the Modern World
The key ideas in this 50-minute video lecture is that commerce and trade transformed the seventeenth century, that wars previously fought over religious beliefs transformed into wars over economic resources, and that the quest...