CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat ... Portraits of women tended to be more idealized, often imitating the dress or hairstyle of members of the Imperial ...

Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period ... Portraits of women tended to be more idealized, often imitating the dress or hairstyle of members of the Imperial Court, making it difficult ...

Long before art fairs, advisory firms and mega-galleries, there were barbers, tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas ...

About half a century before Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and three centuries before the invention of Google, Dunton intended to cater to the learned male patrons of London’s new coffeehouses ...

It was a vessel for sacramental wine at the Farmington church from the late 17th century until 2005 when the church decided to sell its colonial silver. Eric Martin Wunsch, a significant New York ...

AKG/Album Scotland was not alone in falling victim to witchcraft panics in the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century. Witch-hunting plagued Europe, beginning in the 15th century ...

Among these was the German physician and naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer, who claimed in the late 17th century that Edo was “the center of the world.” The city’s prosperity was largely because ...

Invented in the late 17th century, mole is a thick sauce made with chocolate, chiles, nuts and other spices. Traditionally, the sauce covers succulent chicken or turkey. While mole recipes differ ...