Recent Posts

• Botticelli’s Birth of Venus: Hair painted with real gold, by an artist who fell under the spell of a crazed monk (VIDEO ADDED)
• St. Peter in Chains: Busted out of Prison by an Angel
• Virgin of the Rocks: Two paintings, one ripped Baby Jesus
• The Laocoon: Rome’s buried and botched disaster of a statue (VIDEO INSIDE)
• Pompeii’s exploding skulls and the failed rescue of the volcanic victims of Vesuvius (VIDEO ADDED)
• Head of a Faun: Michelangelo’s first work, stolen by Nazis (VIDEO ADDED)
• The Ancient Egyptian Tomb of Seti I, discovered and trashed by a circus strongman (VIDEO INSIDE)
• Vanished from History: The giant Golden Menorah, still visible on the Arch of Titus in Rome