Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

The oil painting features comical ... and the shell it emerges from – a reimagining, perhaps, of Botticelli's Birth of Venus.

Florence, Italy, attracts millions of visitors each year and is well known for its art – art museums and galleries hou ...

Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls, or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...

According to Harry R. Rubenstein, an emeritus curator in the Division of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the symbolic birth of the U.S. system of ...

Breenbergh specialized in paintings of Italianate landscapes with shepherds or small figures that enact scenes from the Bible or classical mythology. Here he represents an episode from Ovid’s ...

In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken ...

Annual live births, stillbirths, maternities and fertility rates in England and Wales broken down by area of usual residence, sex, registration, age of parents, number of previous live-born children, ...

This black ink drawing shows a woman, visible from the shoulders up, with black hair wearing a white tunic. She holds up her left hand as two small imp-like creatures with black claws and waist bands ...