Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is the legendary founder. Edgar Degas's mysterious, otherworldly 1861 painting at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, reveals how the Semiramis myth ...
Charles-Simon Catel (1773-1830) is primarily remembered as a teacher of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire during the Napoleonic era. His music represents 19th-century neoclassicism at its most severe ...