Stolen Salvatore Rosa Painting Was Returned After 4 Years
Four years after it was stolen, Salvatore Rosa’s 17th-century painting A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan was recently returned to its owners,...
Tiny Scribble Drawn By Michelangelo Sells for $201K
Owning an artwork by renowned Renaissance artist Michelangelo is a dream for many art collectors, but most of them never accomplish it. Most of...
WWII Bunker Beneath Benito Mussolini’s Villa is Re-Opened for the Public
When Italy officially entered World War II in 1940, the country’s fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, set out to build a bunker beneath his Rome...
Colorized Footage Shows How the World Looked in 1896
Photography equipment manufacturers Auguste and Louis Lumière, known as the Lumière brothers, were pioneers of motion pictures. Thanks to their short films, we now...
Should William Shakespeare’s Authorship of His Plays and Sonnets Be Questioned?
William Shakespeare wrote 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and three narrative poems over the course of his life. However, some believe that Shakespeare didn’t actually...
Long-Lost Silent Film Starring Clara Bow Was Discovered in a Box of Old Reels
The audience at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which was held earlier this April in San Francisco, California, had a chance to watch...