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

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

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

Mesmerizing, passionate and cerebral, this French historical drama is my pick for the best film.

With love stories come love tropes—themes that give us expectations of how two characters (or sometimes more) will execute ...

A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

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

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

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 ...

After the British Raj was established, the Indian kurta pajama became fashionable across Europe and was eventually adapted ...