The roman author Apuleius wrote in the Metamorphoses that “the fame of Psyche’s beauty was so great that strangers came in crowds to enjoy the sight”. The young girl was so beautiful that people started…
The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera displays a Mexican peasant man, painfully struggling on his knees, while he is carrying a basket of flowers on his back. A woman stands behind, trying to help…
Ride you naked thro’ the town, and I repeal it” said the Anglo-Saxon Earl Leofric to his stubborn wife Godiva, challenging her, but certainly not expecting the consequences. The medieval legend narrates that in the…
A pink skin, a red, white, and blue striped ribbon in blonde hair, Bambi eyes and sophisticated attitude: this could seem at first glance the description of the Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein.…