In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

In collaboration with Hirox, The Mauritshuis has documented "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665) in unprecedented detail.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Women artists are out there and not so difficult to find, but once we find them, we have to accept the fact that the art ...

As quiet as she was talented, Eva Gonzalès embodied the grace, modernity and freedom of early Impressionism, in an artistic ...

She was the queen of the 17th-century ... were so many women artists who specialized in botanical illustration.” A Life of Fame and Fortune One of the most fascinating paintings in the ...

A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society ... a Jewish woman, risked her life to expose King Ahasuerus’s ...

Orient Express has opened its first hotel, Orient Express La Minerva, inside a refurbished iconic 17th century palazzo, a stone’s throw from the Pantheon, in the beating heart of historic Rome.

(AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio League of Women Voters urged the state’s high court on Friday to relocate a portrait of the state’s first female chief justice from a ...

FILE - Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor is pictured in her chambers at the Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File) ...

Evidence of 17th-century air pollution has helped date a rare Vermeer painting. Conservation of Young Woman seated at a Virginal ... the original owner remains unknown, although it could well ...

West Indies were left stunned by a spirited Scotland despite a valiant effort from Hayley Matthews, on an eventful opening day of the tournament. The results meant Pakistan and Scotland occupy the ...