The death of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk

On August 22, 1545, Charles Brandon , Duke of Suffolk, died in Guildford . He died in ripe old age, at the age of 61, after an extremely successful and fulfilling life . In fact, throughout his life and until his death, Suffolk was known as “a second king” , due to his close friendship with Henry VIII and his great influence on the politics of the […]

5 Keys in Cleopatra’s story

It may interest you: How many kids did cleopatra have? Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek family that had ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years. She came to power in 51 BC at the age of 18, following the death of her father, […]

What is hyperrealism?

It happened in 1966, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. A group of artists, sculptors and painters, publicly presented under the title The Photographic Images, the exhibition was announced with the eloquent words: «Attention, there is no camera«. And it is that they were somewhat obsessed with offering a reproduction literally identical to […]

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