Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before ...

In a fusion of science and art, anatomy takes center stage—in the intimate dissection theater of Pistoia, in the grand wax collection of Florence's La Specola, and in the two skeletons with their circ ...

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The first complete set of Claude Lalanne’s beloved ‘Ginkgo’ dining suite is coming to market this month. Consisting of a ...

The greatest lover of all time, Giacomo Casanova, is also one of the most misunderstood figures of the 18th century. Beyond his legendary romantic escapades, he was an alchemist, a spy (credited with ...

The best hotels in Madrid offer something for everyone, from vibrant nightlife to shopping sprees in Salamanca. Here's where ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

Romance and Reality,” at the Yale Center for British Art. Its reason for being is the artist’s 250th birthday, and why not?

Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should ...

From a fantasy world of witches and pirates to a hotel on the Amalfi Coast, these summer books will transport you into a ...

This 1974 story from the L.A. Times revisits the legendary Mary Pickford in her later years, living in seclusion at her ...

As the style capital of the world, it's no wonder Paris has more than a few hotels with close fashion industry ties. Here are ...