During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...
Welcoming me at the entrance of the Vatican Library is Don Giacomo Cardinali, commissioner of the Exhibition Hall and ...
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February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...
Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan among stars honoured with London blue plaques - Novelist Barbara Pym and artist Graham ...
When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
The entertainment mogul and upstart collector Justin Sun are locked in a court battle over an almost $80 million Giacometti, ...
The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...
The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for ...
The changes were made Thursday in the wake of an executive order Trump signed calling for the federal government to define sex as only male or female.