by Lucille Turner | Apr 16, 2016 | Art
Knowing who Mona Lisa was does not answer the questions that persist; if anything, it augments them. In recent years art historians have accepted that the sitter for the Mona Lisa portrait was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant from Florence, but...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 6, 2016 | Art
When we think of a harem, we tend to associate it with the domination of women by men, and on the whole, we are right to do so. It comes across to Europeans as rather a mysterious place, a prison where women were subservient to the sexual desires of the Sultan, a...
