Boy on a ram
It is said that the greatest artists have been given the gift of creating stories that last for...
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Devil´s Trill Sonata
The young Giuseppe Tartini studied the humanities, rhetoric and music, but he may not have taken...
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Colbert began as the private asset manager of Cardinal Mazarin and became his right hand. With a...
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Gloriette Vienna
The word “Gloriette” refers to a building in a garden that is located on an elevated...
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Penance Walk to Canossa
In 1073 the monk Hildebrand was appointed as pope Gregory VII, not by the cardinals, but by...
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Cappuccino
The cappuccino is not, as many will believe, an invention of the Italians, but comes originally...
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The Happy Drinker
Frans Hals, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck, is one of the most important...
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Piano Concerto No. 2
Born in 1873 in Novgorod, S. Rachmaninov is considered one of the most important composers of the...
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Why poetry
Poems are more than just a nice addition to literature. A good poem has an “inner...
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse, the misunderstood dreamer, who always started a new journey.
