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

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 ...

"Earthly Paradise," a radiant new exhibition at Van Doren Waxter in New York, shines a light on the life and legacy 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 ...

A new ceramic artwork at Hanoi’s Nhon metro line station celebrates the city’s history, inspired by the clanging trams of early 20th-century Hanoi and created as a unique gift from the French ...