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 ...

According to a recent announcement, 10 Doune flintlock ... pistol’s influence had already begun to wane by the time the Act of Proscription was repealed in 1782. By the end of the 18th century ...

ITALY: John and Angelo Zorn from Novato spent three nights at Astapiana Villa Giusso, a 17th-century monastery overlooking the Sorrento peninsula and Bay of Naples. Now a sprawling estate with ...

Apparently executed during a late 17th century restoration of Cupid and Psyche, the forgotten works were in pristine condition and had been hidden for nearly two centuries. “My first feeling was ...

in the early 20th century, an HBC flintlock trade gun made by J.E. Barnett & Sons in 1871 and a soapstone carving from Lukasie Tunu Saviakjuk that dates back to 1958. Archives of Manitoba The ...

Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest company, is seeking court permission to auction off its artifacts, art and even the royal charter that gave the business the power to dominate the 17th century ... early ...

The flintlock’s pan and ... stick encompassing a concealed gun. Also housed by the Pitt River Museum, this weapon dates to sometime in the 19th century. According to the museum, weapons of ...

The Brown Bess begins use in about 1730, and this type of gun would have been the workhorse ... The pocket watch had been around at the beginning of the 17th century. It was a pretty rare thing ...

WOW a 1700s flintlock pistol found metal detecting patriot sites for colonial coins and relics? During a recent trip to Charleston, SC we visited with our friends from the low country metal ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...