Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much ...

Complete collections of presidential portraits are found in the White House and on public display in the National Portrait ...

After publishing a definitive biography of Rodin, she went on to write about the underappreciated women who modeled for the ...

Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ...

Elderly man looking longingly at a glass of wine he holds in his hand Illustration from ... This ball was a celebration held in Paris Hotel De Ville. Major event in social calendar Portrait of 19th ...

A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as ...

A painting from a thrift store in Glenside is by William H. Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...

Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your social class ... Once they got up to Albany, they went to the swearing-in ceremony and partied overnight at their hotel ...

In a novella that quietly satirized the intellectuals of late-19th century Paris, the poet Paul Valéry also created a ...