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

It is thus vital for it to grasp that crisis is where Europe finds itself today. Having long relied on China’s market for ...

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

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing ...

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 ...

But while the interest of many 19th-century European artists and designers in such materials is well-known, as is the 19th-century European boom in orientalist painting that provided imaginative ...

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.

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

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 ...