The unpublished work — believed to be the oldest known English book on cheese — contains some “repulsive” entries, experts ...

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Clair Dinhut's family home is no ordinary house: it's a 9th-century water mill in France, complete with original stone floors ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

And working from the shadows is nobleman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Jérémie Renier), a savvy statesman who’s ...

The Korean artist discusses her fierce feminist manhwa debut, ‘Raging Clouds’ (Fantagraphics, May), which garnered a PW ...

A rare exhibit of the Holy Tunic of Christ — believed to be the garment worn by Jesus during his passion — is drawing ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

Vladimir Putin served his apprenticeship in the KGB toward the end of the Cold War, a period during which Western societies were infiltrated by so-called 'illegals'. Piers Brendon examines how the ...

The artwork is being prepared for auction in Toulouse, France, with bidding starting between $113.2 ... who used to paint alongside Caravaggio and lived in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century.

By the Middle Ages, many bakers only kept the cross on Good Friday bread. According to popular tales, one 12th-century English monk made spiced buns marked with a cross on Good Friday, because ...