the Dutch trade’s infrastructure. But new research in the catalogue by the art historians Patrizia Cavazzini and Caterina Volpi highlights how 17th-century Italy gave rise to an art economy ...

A promenade platform has been built over the historic wall, designed by the Dutch engineer ... my drawings of the 17th-Century revetments which were uncovered during the work displayed for those ...

Here's our list of Frieze must-see shows during this coming week of New York art fairs, from museums to galleries.

Typically, servants needed to work for at least four ... ball of the femur was replaced by a metal implant, a 21st-century skeleton may differ from a 17th-century one. Chip Clark / NMNH, SI ...

National Gallery staff work on the rehanging of The Martyrdom ... particularly the Italian Renaissance and the Dutch 17th century. The lower-level rooms would have space for 150 to 300 more ...

In “The Pillow Book,” written at the turn of the 11th century, Shonagon Sei ... They were present in the influential work of the manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka, who published his ...

The king, reported to a 17th-century Portuguese friar who traveled ... served side by side in the royal court and the bureaucracy. Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese and other foreign merchants dwelled ...

By the mid- to late 17th century the new global ... tipped off potential looters. Since work began in 2012, the team has retrieved L-shaped bits of metal, possibly used for stretching out a ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany ... fragments of lead bullets and deposits of metal wheels — which were likely safeguarded ...

all in an attempt to uncover more about the people and medicine of 17th-century Milan. “The study of their remains aims to give back a general identity and a story to each of these persons,” the team ...