Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was one of the most important Spanish painters of all time and one of his drawings recently sold for $ 1,339,722, a price even higher than Sotheby’s had estimated for the painting. The work was called “El ladrón de nidos” (The nest thief) and it has not been on the [...]

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1500 years ago, the Pope Gregoire I was listing the seven deadly sins condemned by the Catholic Church. Do you know them from memory? Everybody has some tendency to wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony: they’re natural human traits. In March 2008, the Vatican updated the sins list in order to modernize them [...]

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