when cats became affiliated with witches and dark magic, and their reputation didn’t recover until the 18th century. In the 19th century, people of all classes began to keep cats as beloved pets ...

The family had found a painting in his estate and wanted to know what it was worth. “When I saw it, it certainly appeared to be an 18th century painting,” Stauffer said. “It was a well-done painting.” ...

Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, said that the work of Reynolds, the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously ...

a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de ...