Something had to change, and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying shogunate with the Empire of ... of Islamic art and architecture. Elements of Byzantine and Persian building ...

"Art history is also a history of ... the department has amassed a collection of 20,000 objects from Byzantine times through to the Second French Empire, a little more than a third of which ...

Something had to change, and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying shogunate with the Empire of Japan – a constitutional ... period in the development of Islamic art and architecture.

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Nestled in the heart of Wicker Park, Myopic Books stands as a beacon for book lovers, its green storefront a siren call to ...

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

“High lead contents persist throughout the times of the Roman Empire and the first half of the Byzantine Empire,” they wrote. Scientists also found lead in marine sediment cores, which they ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

What Bailey meant was that he believed, in time, that art collectors would come to recognize the significance of art regardless of its scale. When I came across Santiago’s work in 2018 ...

The Dutch were not alone in the conflict, this time enjoying the unofficial support of Spain under Charles II and the Holy Roman Empire under Leopold I ... promising fair treatment if they surrendered ...

Photograph by Art Archive Much later ... Much later, following the breakup of the Roman Empire, Petra became a provincial capital under the Byzantine Empire. But when that in turn fell to Muslim ...