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...religion, manuscripts, books, and other objects of artistic, historical, or archaeological value, as well as scientific connections and important collections of archives. Video 2 In the next section, you will learn more about the specific rules set out in the 1954 Hague Convention...Week 2: Cultural heritage in war: 3.1 Applying Hague Convention Guidelines - The animation...

...religions: the Mona Lisa was the mother of Helen of Troy and the Virgin Mary. The wisdom and knowledge she has acquired is worn lightly, nothing more than ‘the sound of lyres and flutes’, apparent only in the ‘delicacy’ of colour on ‘eyelids and hands’. The aim of the preceding exercise was to encourage you to think about form and structure even when a poem...

...religion, Delacroix held views on art that nevertheless assumed the existence of something beneath and beyond the purely material. And yet we must not forget the possibility that Delacroix’s journal may be, above all, a skilful work of self-presentation and self-justification...Delacroix: 5.1 Sardanapalus – a disconcerting subject - Many of Delacroix’s...

...religion (The Bible, John Knox, Foxe’s Book or Martyrs), and from history (Macaulay, Hallam) to books on civil law. While living in the parental home in Edinburgh, Stevenson’s reading shows his interest in the wider world beyond Europe, seen in books on America and Japan. Stevenson read widely, but he has also been widely read. Because of the popularity of...