The Crouching Venus at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

Some time ago I wrote about “A crouching Aphrodite in London“, a sculpure I saw at the British Museum. It

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Pompeii and Herculaneum (Ercolano): A journey back in 1st century AD

View of Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background Pompeii has always exerted a special influence on me. The sudden destruction,

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