There is a deep, unhealed historical wound in the UK’s relations with China – a wound that most British people know nothing about, but which causes China great pain. It stems from the destruction in 1860 of the country’s most beautiful palace. It’s been described as China’s ground zero – a place that tells a…
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The Leonardo hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers
One of the world’s most famous self-portraits is going on rare public display in the northern Italian city of Turin. Very little is known about the 500-year-old, fragile, fading red chalk drawing of Leonardo da Vinci but some believe it has mystical powers. There is a myth in Turin that the gaze of Leonardo da…
BBC News – Germany returns art stolen by Nazis in 1939 to Poland
BBC News – Germany returns art stolen by Nazis in 1939 to Poland Germany has returned an 18th Century painting that was looted from Poland’s National Museum by the Nazis in 1939.
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