Thornapple or jimsonweed and related plants have an interesting history – from an early asthma treatment to intoxicated British soldiers.
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None of us are going to be able to travel with ease to New York any time soon but this exhibition showcases the quality and depth of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
Disasters are inevitable. They should not make us give up on life, rather we should celebrate the preciousness of that life all the more.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Charles I’s belief that art was a way of projecting power bankrupted England and alienated his people. The rest is history.
