Archive - Metapherse

The Palermo Phantom

The Theft of the Nativity: Where is Caravaggio's most famous painting 56 years after it was stolen?

Jul 5 •

The Phaistos Disc - an enigma wrapped in a puzzle inside a conundrum

How a clay disc the size of a dinner plate became archaeology's greatest unsolved mystery—and why we might never crack its code

Jul 1 •

June 2025

The great con of the Hope Diamond

How a French jeweller invented a curse, fooled America, and created the world's most famous marketing campaign

Jun 30 •

January 2024

Morning Sun- Hopper's ode to urban solitude

Few painters have given stillness and solitude more life than Edward Hopper

Jan 6, 2024 •

Rohonc Codex- The Hungarian Voynich

Maybe 500 years old and still undeciphered, the Rohonc Codex continues to baffle crytographers, historians, linguists and citizen journalists even today

Jan 3, 2024 •

December 2023

Liberty Leading the People - masterpiece by Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix breathes life into his magnum opus by expertly capturing the existing cultural and class divide through expert use of colour and character…

Dec 31, 2023 •

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Hunters in the Snow"

Human vulnerability amidst the cycles of nature, and the resilience of communities

Dec 29, 2023 •

Caravaggio's “Supper at Emmaus” - A study in symbolism

Few examples of Baroque painting have so much embedded symbolism in delivering a message for Christianity

Dec 26, 2023 •

Tintoretto's Last Supper

Da Vinci made it immortal, but Tintoretto's version is iconic in itself

Dec 24, 2023 •

October 2023

The Voynich Manuscript

A forgotten language, an undeciphered script or a hoax?

Oct 6, 2023 •

Van Gogh - The Café Terrace at Night

A mystery in symbolism or the harbinger of post impressionism?

Oct 5, 2023 •

Caravaggio - The Crowning with Thorns:

A profound exploration of suffering and sacrifice

Oct 3, 2023 •

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