Part I includes artistic prose, essays and commentaries on poetic art; Part II consists of interviews with painters, articles on art exhibitions and essay portraits of artists. In Part III the reader ...

In 333 B.C., Alexander the Great faced the challenge of untying the enormous and complicated Gordian Knot. Many had tried and, though the reward was a kingdom, all had failed. Alexander drew his ...

Alexander the Great slices the Gordian Knot with his sword in 333 B.C. The legend—depicted in this painting by Jean-Simon Berthelemy—has it that the knot in the city of Gordium (present-day ...

The sword he used to cut the Gordian knot would have been a well-crafted piece of both art and metalwork, and he would have split the knot cleanly with a carefully aimed, sharpened blade ...

There’s a tale from ancient antiquity so insightful we still use it today: the tale of the Gordian Knot — a knot so tightly interwoven it’s impossible to see how it can be untied. In the legend, ...