One of the earliest of all was a 17th-century Puritan manual titled “A Token ... Dystopias usually avoid painting precise political portraits; they are political parables, and like parables ...

A famous Londoner; a famous Parisian ... paper still awaiting its great movement—it came in 1857—as what the 17th-century English poet Alexander Brome referred to as “bum fodder.” ...

The verdant splendor of forests and jeweled colors of flowers have been the delight of visual artists for millennia. Plants ...

After nearly a century of inattention, the Fountain of Apollo at Versailles was completely restored using 17th-century ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

It’s an image that, remarkably, might never have come to be if not for one unlikely painting. In the clip below, Murray opens up about a particular night, his first on stage, and how a dreadful ...

She wore an ivory silk corset featuring François Boucher’s 18th-century painting “Daphnis and Chloe”, a landmark design from Westwood’s 1990-91 Portrait Collection. The sleeveless corset featured a ...

We are proud to offer students the opportunity to learn more about Spain and Latin America and to study different periods from early modern (Golden Age) Spain and colonial Latin America to ...

The English baluster is one of the earliest classes of drinking glass. These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and this early date makes them ...

In 1953, the same year as the successful Mount Everest expedition were equipped with Rolex wristwatches, Rolex released the Oyster Perpetual Explorer.