The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

Oscar Fouz Lopez’s work sits comfortably in this tradition. For contemporary audiences, his work might be compared with that ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will take inspiration from the work of author Monica L. Miller and ...

After the British Raj was established, the Indian kurta pajama became fashionable across Europe and was eventually adapted ...

A 1990 oil and collage on canvas painting by Benny Andrews (Ga., 1930-2006) from the artist's America Series, a ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

such as Italian Renaissance paintings for Maria Grazia Chiuri at Christian Dior, Medieval tapestries for Dries van Noten, or 18th-century delicacies evoked by John Galliano and Christian Louboutin.