While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing ...

During the late 17th century, Polish nobleman and writer Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski commissioned the construction of a Baroque bathing pavilion in Warsaw. Poland’s king, Stanisław August ...

By the 17th century, when those buried in the crypt ... Spanish conquistadors first encountered the plant in the late 15th century, and their writings at the time describe natives “carry[ing ...

Reaching its peak in late 17th century, after the wars with the Ottoman Empire, its characteristic feature was fashion inspired by Oriental trends. Exhibition poster by Magdalena Burdzyńska for ...