A new study explores the portrait practice of Beale, the most famous of the early female professional painters in Britain ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Whereas the ...

From the moment I entered the lobby, the property felt like a more intimate version of the Louvre, housing 6,000 art and furniture pieces from the owner’s collection. Not to mention, it’s one of the ...

HAMPTON — Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the oldest continuous English-speaking parish in North America.

The English baluster is one of the earliest classes of drinking glass. These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and this early date makes them ...

A wealth of Neoclassicist art has joined the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago via collectors Jeffrey and Carol ...

For more than 10 years, I've led Apartment Therapy's real home content, producing thousands of house tours from around the world. Currently, I live in my maximalist dream home in New Orleans, ...

“We kill the tyrants or die trying to, for we are many and they are few,” proclaims a mayor pushed to his limits in a new adaptation from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga of the classic 17th-century ...

The Foresters Arms, a historic country pub with letting rooms in North Yorkshire, has been sold for an undisclosed price.

Mooch around independent shops, visit a chocolate tea room, wander a regency street that feels like France and relax in a ...