The indomitable Lady Columbia defends the United States ... an emblem of the “New Heaven” of the American colonies. By the early 18th century, she was known by the less diminutive “Columbia ...

David Salsburg's book, The Lady Tasting Tea, is an entertaining series ... is that of the conflict between Pearson, the 20th-century survivor of the 19th-century triumvirate who established ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

In the background is the only depiction of Roccati (right) from the 18th century. Manuela Callari In 1988, Paula Findlen was strolling under the Renaissance arcades of Via Zamboni in Bologna ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel entered the Calendar of the universal Church in the early 18th century. Although there is no historical evidence for the pre-Christian Carmelite community ...

Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish. “Monstrous Beauty” challenges the traditional ...