They would have provided minimal protection from unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections such as syphilis, which was a significant public health problem in 19th century Europe ...

All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

The Bristol-born artist has been back in the UK to co-curate a show at the National Gallery dedicated to José María Velasco, ...

The collection has been carefully put together over many years by an important European private collector. It represents some of the most prominent artists of the Dutch Romantic era who came to define ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Spanning six centuries of European art, the May Old Masters auction will include important examples from the 15th to the early 19th century. The earliest work in the sale is a panel from the upper ...

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C ... It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters ...