A contemporary of the Impressionists, the late 19th-century society painter James ... Tissot, who visited the Holy Land on more than one occasion, created around 700 biblical scenes between ...

(New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the ... huddled together at the base of Judaism’s holy site, known in Hebrew as the Kotel.

While the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic is frequently cited during the COVID-19 crisis, let us go back further in time to the Holy Land in the early 19th century. There we find cholera epidemics ...

And so this is an opportunity to kind of think about how landscape paintings of the 19th century record relationships to the land in that time that is different from what we might assume.

Spanning six centuries of European art, the May Old Masters auction will include important examples from the 15th to the early 19th century ... of the 18th-century Italian pictures in the sale is an ...

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of climate change introduced ...

A previously lost William H Dorsey painting, representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture, was found at the New Life Thrift Shop in Glenside, writes Peter Crimmins for the WHYY.

Reporting from Ramallah, West Bank — Palestinians on Sunday celebrated the canonization at the Vatican of two 19 th century nuns from ... Jerusalem and set up the Holy Rosary Sisters, who ...

Desperate conservationists are using 19th century paintings to protest against the ... to the development scheme that would change the land the Victorian author would have walked across to visit ...