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.

Contrary to what you might expect if you’ve come across tradwife TikTok, Christianity was once very queer. In fact, non-heterosexual men fundamentally influenced public religious life in the medieval ...

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 ...

Starting in November, visitors to the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings together nearly 150 works spanning some 200 years to demonstrate Mexico’s varied and ...

Ask most people, “Where do tulips come from?” They would say Holland, and indeed, they would be right. Tulip festivals and ...

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

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

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

It is impossible, it seems, for a person to walk by Gioielleria Pennisi in Milan and not stop and stare into the windows. I ...

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).

The joy of discovery inspires travelers to chronicle their adventures in photos, journals and social media posts. Here are ...