Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the contradictory nature of loneliness in the poem Childe Harold, juxtaposing the positive ...

The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

The three uniquely different towns of Rapallo, Varenna, and Menaggio offer elegant views, food tours and everything you need ...

A painting of a “merchant ship” at Ajanta Cave No. 17, indicating sea trade during the fifth century, inspired the Indian ...

But poor, rich Brisbane never made quite enough to pay down the $4 million mortgage. In 1928, he sold his interests — ...

tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, spotlights this understudied corner of the early art ...

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic church in Maryland ... when Maryland was attacked by troops from the English Parliament. "But in the 1660s, things ...

The panel, which investigates claims for Nazi-looted art in UK public collections ... is believed to be a commentary on the English Civil War. It depicts scenes from Latin poem The Aeneid ...

While conducting research at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, English professor Leah Veronese found a striking poem in a 17th-century collection ... Museum of Art and Archaeology and ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

“But it’s also unique in British art and allows us to widen our understanding ... which would have been highly unusual since most English 17th-century portraits featured Black sitters only ...

The exhibition, open until 12 January 2025, displays works that provide a deeper insight into the influence of Raphael in 17th century Rome, showing art such as Pietro da Cortona's "Galatea".