The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Vital work on a 17th century bridge near a Suffolk town will take place this summer, with traffic lights in place on the A road.

The 17th century was marked by near-constant war, rebellion, and social collapse across much of the world. But what caused this wave of crises to erupt nearly everywhere at once?

Reflection on the painting Today marks the fortieth day after the Resurrection. Now, having completed His earthly mission, He prepares to return to the Father. Before ascending ... This same Jesus, ...

Caravaggio’s interpretation of the Biblical story confines the supernatural experience entirely to Mary’s facial expression, as opposed to previous artists who had depicted her as physically ascending ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gardens intertwine with art like honeysuckles round a bush of lilac. Gardeners often have an artistic ...

Long before art fairs, advisory firms and mega-galleries, there were barbers, tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy ... one could buy a painting in a barber ...

About half a century before Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and three centuries before the invention of Google, Dunton intended to cater to the learned male patrons of London’s new coffeehouses ...

According to tradition, the shrine houses the grave of Rabbi Chaim Ben Yosef Vital, a 17th-century kabbalist who wrote down the words of his teacher Isaac Luria, preserving the work of one of the ...

By late in the 17th century, the vaulted loggia ceiling had fallen into disrepair, and included loose areas of “intonaco,” the final, smooth layer of plaster used in frescoed painting.

In the Book of John, Jesus commissions her to share the good news of his return with the other disciples, which is why Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth-century ... painting Magdalene ascending to ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings could help shed light on a mysterious gravesite at the camp. Photo from ...