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

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

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

The bust, created in 1728 by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, is a marble portrait of Sir John Gordon, an 18th-century ...

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

Hava Raucher has no such qualms. The 80-year-old painter and sculptor’s new show, at Artists’ House in Tel Aviv, is a ...

Art, as a mirror of society, evolves dynamically over time . Movements, or ldquo;isms rdquo;, influence one another through reactions, innovations, and reinterpretations .

An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional woodblock prints and paintings) and crafts ...

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

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

Historically a place where monarchs and aristocrats would escape the winter in favour of warm Mediterranean climes, this southern French city is at its best in the off season.

A mysterious necklace, laden with 500 diamonds and with possible links to a scandal that contributed to the downfall of ...