When Hafiz was once asked: Who is a poet?, he replied: A poet is someone who is capable of pouring light into a glass, then raising it and quenching your beautiful dry, sacred mouth. Iranian poet Shamsuddin Muhammad (around 1320 – 1389), better known by his nickname, Hafiz, which in Arabic means the one who … Read more
Skopas was a sculptor and architect from the later classical period of Greece (4th century BC), originally from the island of Paros. He is among the six most famous sculptors of ancient Greece, alongside Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, and Lysippos. He belonged to the Attic sculptural school, which he led for a time together with … Read more
In Tivoli, a town near Rome, there is one of the most beautiful residential buildings built during the long existence of the Roman Empire. On an area of about a hundred hectares, more than thirty individual buildings of this unique urban complex were built, which, although devastated by centuries of looting and devastation, still show … Read more
