EditorialAlexius of Rome (4th century). The Wedding of St. Alexius. He fled his arranged marriage to follow his holy vocation. Altarpiece of St Alexius , 1769, by the Baroque sculptor Lluis Bonifas i Masso (1730-1786). Golden and polychrome wood. Detail depicti...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...