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

Decadence, awe, and jealousy inspired a strange 18th-century architectural trend. Decadence, awe, ... Now rich landowners all over Europe were building ruins that were not natural at all.

The Museum of Fine Arts' new exhibit, "Casanova's Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century," uses Giacomo Casanova's autobiography, "The Story of My Life" to guide museum-goers through ...

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 ...

In the age of #MeToo, the MFA is pivoting on a long-planned exhibition showing 18th-century Europe through the eyes of the notorious womanizer.

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 ...

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.

How did 18th-century vampire hunters identify the undead? Blood and fingernails. Gruesome accounts from eastern Europe, collected in a scholarly work on the supernatural, detailed the methods used ...

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