The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

The Course of Empire' is a cycle of paintings by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole that depict the rise and fall of an ...

A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790–1835, dedicated to artworks produced by Indian artists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for European patrons. The exhibition, held at DAG’s Windsor ...

Despite the disappearance of their original, practical purpose — which was on display in London in the 19th century, at the Great Exhibition ... artists of the time was decisive in Impressionist ...

A thrift store discovery in New Jersey has broken hearts online, after a shopper stumbled upon an emotional message on a beautiful painting ... last year a woman shared what she called the ...

PARIS: As the world reels from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the ...

Scientists believe the woman might have been a trained warrior, similar to the Amazon warrior women written about by the ancient Greeks. As reported by Forbes, the grave was found up in the highlands ...

“There was a lot of resistance to the Birka Warrior being a woman,” said Viking historian Professor Neil Price, who served as an archaeological consultant on the new reconstruction. “That resistance ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...

19th c., standing monkey warrior guardian figure, holding a spear, the other arm aloft holding a lantern; pagoda-form removable bobeche; ornate base with elephant head feet; 16"h;, 19th c.