If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at a glance it conveys the style and atmosphere of the ...

In the final weeks of May 1871, French president Adolphe Thiers ordered soldiers to lay waste to the Paris Commune, resulting in massacres across the city. It is impossible to look at French art in ...

52.2 x 69.7 cm. (20.6 x 27.4 in.) ...

Intervened in the Thirty Years’ War, making Sweden a leading military power. Gustav II Adolf was killed at the Battle of Lützen. The first female monarch after Sweden became a hereditary monarchy.