As Mary Novakovich was heading towards her 60th birthday, she longed for the southern French getaway she had for her 40th – ...

A Room of Her Own” at the Hispanic Society in New York showcases sacred Estrado spaces of upper-class women in the 15th-18th ...

There's a new Versailles restoration afoot, as experts descend on paintings adorning the billiards room off the Sun King's ...

Grayson Perry ©? Richard Ansett, shot exclusively for the Wallace Collection, London The largest contemporary exhibition ever ...

John Singer Sargent made his name as the preeminent portrait of Edwardian England’s wealthy. The Wertheimer family took a ...

If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...

For helping to keep the Jesuits alive during their 18th-century suppression, St. Joseph Pignatelli is regarded as the second ...

Composed of approximately 300 carats of old mine-cut diamonds, the historic piece was once worn during royal coronations and ...

In the space of four years during the twilight of the 18th century, four noteworthy events ... At the dawn of the 19th ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

McNally says he drew inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film, Barry Lyndon, about an 18th century social climber who ...

Stained glass windows were smashed, rood screens burned, gold and jewels prised off cathedral shrines such as Thomas Becket’s ...