When Penn Libraries envisioned an exhibit for Philadelphia’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

A Luxembourg museum has scooped three portraits by 18th century painter Monique Daniche, featuring the elite of Strasbourg ...

What did Jane Austen read, in between writing "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma"? In "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," "Pawn Stars" ...

Walker’s new installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers us visions from both the past and future.

An extensive exhibition dedicated to the Dutch artist highlights her beautifully detailed still-lifes. But do these paintings ...

Dedicated to analog color photography, Tronvoll’s practice is centred around craftsmanship and she collaborates with master ...

A new study explores the portrait practice of Beale, the most famous of the early female professional painters in Britain ...

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Middletown officials kicked off Black History Month Saturday morning by naming a street after a man who spent most of his life enslaved in Connecticut during the 18th ...