Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

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The sale marked an artist record at auction for 18th-century Spanish painter Luis Meléndez, whose still life of a cauliflower, eggs and other kitchen goods sold for $5.1m ($6.2m with fees), just ...

“From 15th-century textile innovations ... be the only museum in the world to display a portrait by Vezzi next to a one by her husband, the artist Simon Vouet (1590-1649), who is best known ...

Housed in the Cracchiolo Gallery of Baroque Art just off the Woodward entrance, “Armor as Fashion,” brings together a 17 th-century portrait of a nobleman with two pieces of armor he wears in it.

in the late 15th century, who was declared “Heretic, Judaizer and Apostate” and sentenced to “moderate” punishment “without death, shedding of blood or mutilation of limbs.” ...

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Puerto Rico, a Spanish colony since the late 15th century, was acquired by the United States following the 1898 Spanish-American and established as an unincorporated U.S. territory.

Lisa Gherardini, a 16th-century noblewoman from the Republic ... Del Giocondo reportedly wanted a portrait created of his wife for the home — so he reached out to Leonardo da Vinci. In the late 15th ...

Window to the soul Leonardo da Vinci’s 1516 sketch of an aging man is likely to be a self-portrait of the artist, then around 65. Bridgeman/ACI This portrait of Leonardo is attributed to ...

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The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs the imagination.