Berlin was a city of ghosts, and under its theaters and subways, the French SS were still fighting. Reduced to scattered ...

The Third Reich was collapsing, and Berlin had become a furnace of fire and ruin. But among the rubble, a desperate coalition ...

Ruins of Roman winery — at least 1,500 years old — found in French Alps. Look inside By Irene Wright. November 26, 2024 6: ...

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” is an account of the city’s Terrible Year and its impact on the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco. By Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey is the author ...

The French poet Joachim du Bellay (1552-60) saw the ruins of Rome as symbolic of life and fate, popularising this concept across Europe with his poetic cycle Les Antiquités de Rome (1558).

Sebastian Smee and his book “Paris in Ruins.” W. W. Norton/Amber Davis Tourlents You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life.

Bookshelf ‘Paris in Ruins’ Review: Romance Amid the Wreckage As an insurrection is ruthlessly suppressed, two Impressionist painters find their way to each other.