As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...

Key figures such as Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Bernini, Velázquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Poussin, Le Brun, Mansart, Hogarth, or David will be discussed in light of fundamental texts in art history ...