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 ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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

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

Between the 17th and 19th centuries ... Africans who had been kidnapped and brought to America by Dutch and English slavers; unlike indentured servants, these laborers had no contracts and ...