A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese ...

A new exhibition, “Mind Over Matter,” invites viewers to pause and connect with the teachings of Zen Buddhism Antonia Mufarech - Correspondent The natural colors of a stoneware tea bowl from Japan and ...

Fingers started wagging when 16th-century European women began wearing masks to protect their skin and hide their identities. Masked women on a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Laeken (now part of the ...

N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...

Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity. James Walker’s “From Alterity to Allegory: Depictions of Cannibalism on Early ...

As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.

Royal Collection Trust/Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Andrea Odoni (Credit: Royal Collection Trust/Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) As a new exhibition of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto ...

A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th-century English warship 'Mary Rose' suggests that whether a person is right- or left-handed may influence how their clavicle bone ...

A 16th Century Grade I listed town centre building, most recently used as a restaurant, could be turned into a family home ...

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