Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.

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

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The first major UK exhibition of celebrated 19th century Mexican artist José María Velasco is a revelation at the National Gallery. It coincides with the 200th anniversary of a diplomatic accord ...

Having paved new paths for established art genres turned stale, and sometimes even created their own genres, Polish female ...

Five years without the City of Love’s cultural icon is a loss – but also an opportunity to discover some of quirky, under-the ...

Long unseen and known only through a 19th-century photograph, the painting Preparing Coffee reemerges with a £1–1.5M estimate ...

Thanks to the participation of the Durand-Ruel archives, the relationship between the two artists and their main dealer is also explored. -Details were made clearer, including Leighton’s ‘L’ monogram ...

Maria 01 plans to become the biggest start-up campus in Europe Yellow diggers are shoring ... founded in the 19th Century and notorious in Helsinki for treating patients with the plague.

An intriguing portrait of a black man in the uniform of a military bandsman and wearing a Waterloo medal drew strong competition after emerging at an auction in East Sussex.

Reading Michael Stutchbury’s article on Donald Trump (“‘Liberation day’ risks going back the ’90s. The 1890s”) makes it far easier to understand the US president’s obsession with the ...