A one-of-a-kind art collection has emerged for the first time ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Eight paintings of Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics are currently up for sale. The “Golden Eight” collection, signed by Phelps himself and created by nationally recognized artist Brian Fox, depicts iconic moments...
Giverny, France – Claude Monet’s Gardens are both intimately familiar and overwhelming in their spectacle. The French impressionist master lived in Giverny, France, for half his life, from 1883 to his death, at age 86, in 1926. The gardens inspired Monet’s greatest and best-known paintings. They are a popular tourist attraction today, located near a...
Sgt. Mordechai Shenvald, 34, of Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF), was one of the performers at a Jerusalem Theatre concert on July 7, 2024 — and played the “Theme from Schindler’s List” on the restored violin of a boy who was killed in the Holocaust, accompanied by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. The moving performance was hosted...
Gilbert Stuart, who created portraits of key figures of the American Revolution and in early U.S. history, died on this day in history on July 9, 1828. Gilbert’s distinctive portrait style remains the way that modern Americans view many of the Founding Fathers and other figures central to the nation’s formative years, noted George Washington’s...
On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, was struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I, noted History.com. A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway was employed as...
