How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors find out starting ...

These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

Check out a new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art on 18th-century European art, enjoy the music at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's Solar Concert Series or watch the cars at the Pittsburgh ...

Before Clara’s arrival, the best known image of a rhinoceros in Europe was Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 woodcut of the creature, with armour-like skin and an extra horn.

During the 17th century, Europeans were increasingly exposed to world cultures that existed around them. Travel by sea happened for more than just explorers commissioned by governments, ...

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s ...

Golden swirls, airy frescoes, cascading ornamentation... A product of 18th century European palaces, Rococo has lost none of its spectacular grace. Delicate yet flamboyant, whimsical and willingly ...

In the 18th century, however, the workshops set up in the villages and religious missions redirected this ancestral tradition to cater for the European market, which was hungry for luxury items as ...

The novel follows the fortunes of Abbas, a young wood carver in 18th-century Mysore, India, as the sultanate falls to British forces. ... art and plunder in 18th-century India and Europe ...

A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian ...

JAMAICA — The Ensemble Amphion Baroque will present “a Musical Journey Through 17th and 18th Century Europe” at the Jamaica Town Hall on Route 30 in Jamaica Vermont on Tuesday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. The ...