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"Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy" painting by Henry Gibbs, 1654. TATE / VIA REUTERS The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector ...
Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector. The work by Henry Gibbs, titled Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken from ...
We really must put more stock in art history.” This is a moral truth ... She even had JPEGs of the fancy medieval tapestries to prove it, with scenes of death by unicorn disembowelment and ...
Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition opening on 29 March 2025 at ...
"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.
Just Stop Oil is to stop throwing soup on paintings and slow marching in streets as it announces its final protest. In a statement, the environmental campaign group said: "Just Stop Oil's initial ...
The medieval knights of the Middle Ages were some of the fittest and strongest warriors of their time, which comes as no surprise given that they wielded swords and sprinted in armour weighing ...
He stopped, began to dig, and found himself staring at a “line of gold” in the mud. Sell had uncovered a medieval ring adorned with a sapphire and other gems, which likely once belonged to a bishop in ...
(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...
Editor's Note: This article is a lightly edited transcript of an excerpt from Wednesday's episode of Newsweek Radio, which you can listen to here: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has emphatically ...
After a packed schedule of art openings and parties early in the week, the big day has arrived. Art Basel Hong Kong opened its doors to VIPs on Wednesday at the Convention and Exhibition Centre.