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Easter dishes from around the world

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Honey-glazed ham, garlic mashed potatoes and fluffy dinner rolls might be staples at American Easter meals, but around the world, there are many distinct ways to savor the holiday -- ones that incorporate both local ingredients and unique cultural traditions.

This famous portrait depicts an artist who was enslaved. He has been misunderstood for centuries

3 years 5 months ago
In 1650, the city of Rome was abuzz. The Spanish artist Diego Velázquez had just exhibited a portrait in the Pantheon's domed interior. His subject: Juan de Pareja, an Andalusian man who was enslaved and serving as Velázquez's studio assistant. Not only was a formal portrait of a man of African heritage exceedingly rare in Western art at the time, but the painting's likeness was so stunning that an early biographer of Velázquez wrote the artist sent Pareja around Rome, painting in hand, to show it off to his acquaintances.
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