The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa', c1829-1831 ... she realised how little she knew about the artist, whose works are so well known worldwide. “He was the greatest Japanese artist ...

In 1831, a Japanese master artist named Katsushika Hokusai created what would become one of the world’s most recognizable images. His woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” depicting ...

The arrival of the Gutenberg printing press in the late Middle Ages may have been good for literacy, but it was bad for witches. It hastened the Age of Reason, but it was also the ideal vehicle ...