𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜

In aeternum | On the trace we leave behind.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Many human beings have left their footprints in their passage through this life. Here we will remember them in a few words in all branches of knowledge and everything where beauty flourishes.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

An illustration of a mid-18th century British infantryman. 39th Regiment, 1742.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Philip K. Dick some 44 published novels and 121 short stories are the legacy of this American science fiction writer who, curiously, spent most of his career in poverty. Eleven popular films have been produced based on his works, including Blade Runner, Total Defiance,...

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

A late-18th century map of the South China Sea. Drawn by Rigobert Bonne and G. Raynal.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Cniva (also given as Kniva) was the king of the Goths who defeated the emperor Decius at the Battle of Abritus in 251 CE.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

After the death of Alexander Severus, a new paradigm for a ruler became standard – of emperors relying on the goodwill of the military in general and their own commands specifically – and this would characterize the 3rd Century CE

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

The Crisis of the Third Century (also known as the Imperial Crisis, 235-284 CE) was the period in the history of the Roman Empire during which it splintered into three separate political entities: the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Palmyrene Empire.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

With a high demand on the one side and artists producing copies as part of their studies on the other, it was perhaps inevitable that the distinction between original and copy became blurred in the Renaissance art world.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

There is evidence that movable metal type printers had already been invented in Korea in 1234 CE in the Goryeo Kingdom (918-1392 CE).

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

During the Renaissance (1400-1600) just about any artist of worth found themselves commissioned at some point in their careers to produce an altarpiece.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

In the Renaissance, more mundane art was produced in greater quantities to satisfy the demand of clients with a more modest budget than that possessed by rulers and popes.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human. Its origins went back to 14th-century Italy and such authors as Petrarch (1304-1374).

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

"The Metamorphosis" is a disturbing book in which the narrator wakes up to find that he has become a giant insect. The stories of Franz Kafka probe the darker, less travelled areas of the human condition.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Renaissance masterpieces which influenced other buildings worldwide include St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Tempietto of Rome, and the dome of Florence's cathedral.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

Rita Moreno’s singing, dancing, and acting skills shined in classics like Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and West Side Story (1961), making her a true triple threat in Hollywood. In 1962, she became the first Latina woman to win an Oscar.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

A Lötschental Valley resident dressed as a Tschägättä strolls around the village of Wiler, in Valais, Switzerland moments before the annual Carnival Parade begins.

[𝙳𝚞𝚘𝚜✷✷𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚜 @Duossoles]

With his great work "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez sold more than 50 million copies. This magical realist novel follows the Buendía family: the founders of Macondo, a metaphor for his own native Colombia.