The ancients identified it as one of the theaters of the Gigantomachie between the gods of Olympus and the giant sons of Gaea. In that ardent "phlegraean" land, the elements manifested themselves at...

Jakob Phillipp Hackert was Prussian from Prenzlau where he was born on 15th of September 1737. He started painting with his father and then moved to Berlin where, after a period spent at his uncle’s workshop,...