Mark Catesby's work documents the plants and animals he saw while journeying in North America and the Caribbean ...

Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England,” makes the 18th century artist’s prison drawings and vivid illustrations seem modern ...

To speak of herd immunity, then, is to use a dead metaphor with roots in 18th-century pastoral. Vaccination ( vacca , Latin for ‘cow’) and the almost magical prophylaxis it accords originated ...

January 9, 2021 | Clip Of America's Founders and Greek and Roman Philosophy This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. User Clip: Enlightenment and Classical Ideas in the 18th ...

For the BBC 18th Century Season, Sean Rafferty looks at 12 Georgian art works from the Royal Collection at the Queen’s Gallery, guided by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures.

For the BBC 18th Century Season, Sean Rafferty looks at 12 Georgian art works from the Royal Collection at the Queen’s Gallery, guided by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures.

arts entertainment Visual Arts. Kimbell Art Museum acquires a Chardin still-life after yearslong quest “The Cut Melon,” a rare oval-shaped painting by the 18th-century French artist Jean ...

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...

Historian David McCullough speaks of the slow-moving speed of communication in the 18th century, ... User-Created Clip November 6, 2019 2013-03-03T22:50:08-05:00 https: ...