The Walters Art Museum's early sixteenth-century brass figure of a bearded, athletic nude man, whose outstretched arms originally supported candleholders, can best be understood as a humanist-inspired ...

THESE days, brass candlesticks offer very good value for money. There are masses of them around, as candle power was the main source of lighting in this country for centuries, and more of them were ...

Do you ever visit the aisles of your local thrift stores gazing at the stylish candlestick holders and think: I will never really use these but I want them? Or maybe you always grab them, only to put ...