In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

For all his compulsion to elicit a public reaction from just about everything he did, Hugo never exhibited his drawings, barely allowing anyone beyond his family and circle of intimate friends to ...

“It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess.” Drawing on ancient texts, temple inscriptions, and archaeological evidence, Brøns learned how these sculptures were not just visual ...

Many of these statues dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite have become timeless icons, recognized worldwide in their original forms or through similar reconstructions. Variant of the Statue of Aphrodite ...