Titled Jeune femme faisant du crochet (Julie Lemmen), 1890, the painting portrays the artist’s sister, Julie Fréderique ...

With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

The real-life surroundings of those living in the Regency Era were likely ... intricate wallpaper, fine art and books would often be on display in 19th-century homes during the social season.

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

(New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at ...

An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings ... of women’s invisible labor. In the 19th century, wet-nursing — where women were paid ...

The latter painting was ultimately acquired by Thomas Evans, one of the most prominent dentists of the 19th century. The Philadelphia-born doctor was as charismatic as he was innovative: he ...

But those very proteins sit in the canvases of paintings from early 19th century Denmark. In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers from across Europe say that ...

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia is now on ...