Joséphine Baker (born on 3 June 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri) was not only an American-born French dancer, singer and actress, but also a French Resistance agent and civil rights activist.She spent her youth in poverty before learning to dance and finding success on Broadway. In the 1920s she moved to France and soon became… Read More Black Venus in the Pantheon
Summer for thee grant I may beWhen summer days are flown!Thy music still when whippoorwillAnd oriole are done! For thee to bloom, I’ll skip the tombAnd sow my blossoms o’er!Pray gather me, Anemone,Thy flower forevermore! Emily Dickinson – Poems (1858) In this poem Emily Dickinson claims that love can do anything. Even death becomes nothing,… Read More Anemone
Lo Specchio di Venere, a Pantelleria, è un lago a forma di cuore che occupa il fondo antichissimo di una caldera e viene alimentato dalla pioggia e da sorgenti termali da cui scaturisce acqua a 40-50 gradi di temperatura. È un luogo magico, caro a Venere, moglie di Vulcano, che vi si specchiava prima… Read More Pantelleria: lo Specchio di Venere
On 8 April 1820 the famous ancient statue Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) . It was presented to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the following year. The marble statue, which is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty… Read More Venus de Milo
26 September 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus. Roman politician and general Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC of a patrician family, and rose through the political and military ranks of Republican Rome to… Read More 26 September 46 BC
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