William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is the most famous playwright in history, though ironically, we know very little about his life and perhaps even less about what he really looked like.

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Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the 18th Century ... How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are ...

One of the most famous volcanos, Italy’s Vesuvius, is the inspiration for a stunningly displayed new exhibition at the ...

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, was known as America's wealthiest woman when she purchased ...

A former chapel dating back to the 18th Century where the tomb of a famous Baptist preacher and ... which managed artists’ spaces, undertook fundraising and organised events, he said in the ...

The residence of Ottoman sultans for 400 years, Topkapi Palace has everything from a sumptuous harem and jewelled robes to ...

The pirate Anne Bonny terrorised the Caribbean in the 18th Century. Her extraordinary life inspired many legends and myths. Video by Anna Pazos and Summer Eldemire Two voice-over artists were ...

A feast of science and art opened on Sept 13 at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, marking the 21st National ...

A Reddit user called shystone combined Google Street Views of London with famous 18th and 19th century paintings to create highly unique then-and-now images (via My Modern Met and/r/London).

Miuccia Prada, wearing clips from the store, and Raf Simons greet the crowds after the Prada collection show at the Milan Fashion Week in February 2024.