Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

“Someone we featured a lot is Abla Kamel, who is featured at the centre of the display, standing on a balcony,” says Abd el ...

The much-anticipated Met Costume Institute exhibition, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," opens to the public May 10.

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

A recently rediscovered painting by 19th-century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey sold for 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) at ...

By adopting Western artistic technique to depict Eastern subjects, Hamdi Bey not only responded to the growing 19th-century ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts.

Pink and blue, along with other pastels, emerged as popular colors for babies in the mid-19th century, but it took time for their status as gender signifiers to be confirmed. In June 1918 ...

By adopting Western artistic technique to depict Eastern subjects, Hamdi Bey not only responded to the growing 19th-century market for Orientalist art but also used his deep understanding of Muslim ...

By adopting Western artistic technique to depict Eastern subjects, Hamdi Bey not only responded to the growing 19th-century market for Orientalist art but also used his deep understanding of ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...