On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Maria Amalia of Saxony, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples is pleased to ...
After a vehicle crashed into the 18th-century graveyard on Columnist Sue Bowman's family farm, she and her husband Dennis got ...
This German castle that was once a 16th-century hunting lodge is surrounded by an artificial lake that reflects its dreamy, ...
Thankfully, Saxony’s landscapes are untainted by geopolitics ... artist Canaletto for the paintings that put this city on the traveller’s map in the 18th century. This was once the largest cotton mill ...
And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too dull to be loved by another woman. When did romance enter the ...
By the turn of the 18th century, royalty had become more mobile. The first proper state visits to England were those of the Emperor of Russia and the King of Saxony to London in 1814. But Windsor ...
With a federal election looming, far-right party Alternative for Germany is running second in the polls. Here's how it got ...
"The beard has made a comeback and nowhere is it more striking than in Lucas Cranach the Elder’s detailed portrait of Lukas Spielhausen, a high-ranking lawyer in 16th-century Saxony." ...
The Ministry of Culture and the Art Foundation of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt State have introduced an upcoming exhibition featuring the main female character in the Tale of Kieu by the Vietnamese ...
For example, the import duty on tea raised its price by around 70 per cent by the middle of the 18th century. Smuggling was usually organised by gangs, who were funded by investors or venturers.
As you approach New Haven, on the right you’ll pass “Composition in Black and Brown,” a billboard by the artist Ken Gonzales-Day collaging his photographs of 18th-century marble busts from ...