The Temple of Neptune, Paestum , 1836, graphite, ink, and wash on paper, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc My recent visit to Viollet-le-Duc Dr...

The Founding of Constantinople  by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Reprinted from Western Exile  @westernexile We commemorate a day holy i...

A forthcoming title that may be of interest to our readers. Available at Amazon.com • Peter the Sicilian: History of the Paulicians, Sermons...

Photos courtesy of  1° Reggimento Re Members of the 1° Reggimento Re historical reenactment and cultural association are preparing and train...

Servant of God Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of King Louis XVI  by É lisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun (circa 1782) God our Father In you...

Photo courtesy of  The Art Institute of Chicago In loving memory of my mother I'm posting November 2 , a moving poem by the great Ne...

I congratulated two Inter supporters after they took the Scudetto from us. The first was a woman close to my age who works at the café near ...

San Gregorio Nazianzeno, ora pro nobis May 9th is the Feast of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329–390), also called Gregory the Theologian, on...

Valentino and Nita Naldi in Blood and Sand (1922) I have everything—and I have nothing. It's all too terribly fast for me. ~ Rudolph V...