Here's a look at LGBTQ+ history through time.In 1476, a young Leonardo da Vinci was investigated by the Florentine moral authorities. A few years ago, Italian art historians thought they had found ...

No fool, Fanny recognized Sargent’s depiction as yet another attempt by an admirer of her husband’s to diminish her. “I am but a cipher under the shadow,” she complained to Sargent.

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In Jan Matejko ’s 1862 depiction of Stańczyk, a famous Polish court jester, the figure sits slumped over in a chair, “having just discovered—presumably indicated by papers on the table ...

The discovery of preserved ancient artifacts also played a huge role in the Decorative Arts of the time. Josiah Wedgwood (British, 1730–1795), one of the most famous English ceramic ...