For the past decade, scholars have been debating how to make sense of Donald Trump’s rise and rule. They have cycled ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon ... into the late, self-conscious stage of the Enlightenment. It was in 1784 that ...

But by 1804 Napoleon had kicked off several wars that ... Nicholas Biddle (1783-1844). Portrait of Nicholas Biddle, by William Inman, c. 1830s Biddle, better known in American history for his ...

Although he would not become famous for his Jewish work until some thirty years later, Oppenheim painted one of his most famous works, Return of a Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His F ...

the ideas to be found in John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau—and instead traces the origins of the modern self to domestic rituals, family portraits and stock investments. A cultural historian ...

When was the first landscape painting made in Europe? And the first abstraction? Art historians love these questions about ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

After a brief period spent hanging on Napoleon Bonaparte’s bedroom wall ... s facial features lend credence to the idea that Leonardo’s most famous work is a self-portrait. Leonardo enjoyed riddles, ...