Biography

Her sudden passing has sprung conspiracy theories.

Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.

Michelangelo loved Florence, but his most exciting assignments were in Rome.

While in The Hague, he regularly attended parliamentary sessions (as an observer), visited scholars, and toured palaces, picture galleries, and museums.

He created about 1500 paintings.

Michelangelo worked for seven popes in Rome.

The King of Great Britain is an active ecology enthusiast.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist who lived from 1770 to 1827.

Jane Austen was an expert at brewing spruce beer.

With so much support among Rome's low and middle classes, Caesar set about reforming the state. Laws prepared by him were aimed at centralizing power and unifying the Roman provinces.