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Histoire Naturelle Des Dorades De La Chine (1780) contains forty-eight stunning engravings of goldfish. This was the first ...
David Pullins, 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 ...
On Tuesday 3rd September 2019, MP Anna Turley tweeted a photo from inside the House of Commons of fellow MP Jacob Rees-Mogg reclining on the government benches.
The back-and-forth has been going on uninterrupted for seventy years. This time, however, the issue will end up directly on ...
Step back, though, and they lead a growing trend among artists to air concerns from ... the freedom fighter of 18th-century Jamaica, a self-emancipated woman who survived the Middle Passage ...
The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between an international auction house and a private buyer.
Luxembourg’s National Museum of History and Art has acquired three works by the 18th century French portrait painter Monique Daniche. Though not much is known about the artist herself ...
One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ...
A portrait by one of the 18th century's best artists is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The artwork was created in 1766 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and is of a woman called Letitia Sparrow.
in 1734 This portrait, lost in a fire at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid in 1734, has been meticulously brought back to life using cutting-edge AI techniques, sparking a revolution in the way art and ...