The editors welcome contributions in all areas of the "long-eighteenth-century" culture outside North America-art, cultural studies, history, literature, music, science, and so on. To speed the ...

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

The restored painting by French master Jean-Antoine Watteau features a figure that looks suspiciously like the artist.

We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

As modern technology has developed and the internet has seemingly pervaded all forms of communication, the act of writing ...

"One cannot but welcome the publication of Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal by Angela Delaforce. The book is neither a general history of Portuguese art nor, in view of its depth and ...

The 100-piece collection has been praised for its size, variety and representation of all major European porcelain makers of ...

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century explores the impact he had on various aspects of culture and society: not only in literature and the theatre, but also in visual arts, music and even national ...

In October 2023, several dedicated auctions were held in New York to sell mostly pieces acquired by Baron James Mayer de ...

Choreographer Kenneth Tindall's story ballet depicts a famous character enthralled with sex — and at odds with the ...