In 16th-century Florence, however, the supplemental information that creeps into later portraits functions less ... I discover nothing,” the French critic and philosopher Roland Barthes wrote ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

In the early 16th century, Bartholeme de Las Casas ... awakened in the second half of the 18th Century during the American and French revolutions. Many abolitionists, for example, claimed that ...

Anyway, he eyed me with all the insouciance of a 22-year-old with little more than a golden peach-fuzz of down on his pert ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

But what if this modern expressionist building was actually designed and built in the 16th century ... including as a home to the 14th century French royal family until its reimagining as a ...

Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a ... Europe in the ...

French restaurants would eventually restore ... What you're getting: The Tour d’Argent duckling Claiming to date back to the ...

The novels were famously tough to adapt until Denis Villeneuve came along. Can an HBO prequel about the origins of the Bene ...

Dine in rustic restaurants, ride a funicular for panoramic views and hunt for treasures at a sprawling flea market in France’s third-largest city.

Full Ethiopian timeline One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history The city's fortified walls, built between the 13th and 16th Centuries ... founded by 19th Century French poet Arthur ...