Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

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Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight ...

Mark Thomas, CEO of Bapco Energies — the integrated energy group leading the energy transition in the Kingdom of Bahrain — ...

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

He was considered the “prince of animal artists,” and a contemporary French critic acclaimed his painting as representing the ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), a political thinker from Renaissance Italy, is best known for his no-nonsense, often harsh approach to power and governance. In his famous book, ‘The Prince’ he argued ...

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Midway through Black History Month, it’s worth noting the relative brevity of Black film history—the very first major-studio feature to be directed by an African-American didn’t come along until 1969, ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...