Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888)
Stop, stranger, and also read through what is written here
Recent Updates
The digital temple now keeps the Etruscan thunder calendar: see what a thunderclap would foretell today, or on any day of the lunar year.
New section: Remains of lives once experienced, with two stories from 1914: two Minneapolis boys who set off down the Mississippi in a canoe, and two Iron Crosses, won by a sixteen-year-old cadet and a socialist reservist.
New on the WINO page: their 2025 single Only Time Knows has joined the singles.
Sol y Sombra brought up to date: Marco Pérez has confirmed his alternativa at Las Ventas, and Juan Belmonte and Lagartijo now have portraits.
Opened Sol y Sombra, a guide to tauromaquia: how a corrida works, its history, its vocabulary, its toreros and the debate around it.
