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Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation, spent the autumn and winter of 1773–4 in ... Although Diderot did not stop buying works of art for Catherine’s Hermitage and Catherine ...

It starts with an early knock off on Wednesday afternoon, taking the scenic route from the heart of Cairns to the coastal ...

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All the latest news, photos and more from Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. Catherine started her acting career in the West End before making her move to the screen in the 1990s. She is married ...

Curator James Payne’s Great Art Explained channel is one of YouTube’s gems. For his latest video, he takes a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s mural The Last Supper and explains what makes it such an ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones is prepping her return ... much about the upcoming project but did say that it's a "movie about art" and she will play an art dealer. "It's interesting because I'm starting ...