When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

Did he make these views known to the French? MS. LOPEZ ... During the late 1760s and early 1770s, what he realized was, that he couldn’t be an American and an Englishman. He had to make a ...

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

The name has befitted holy men, artists, entertainers and athletes for centuries ... the name Delphine has been adopted by many prestigious French women as far back as the 1770s (Delphine LaLaurie was ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Armed men cut down maroon forests and placed cattle ... The farm is near Mazagão Velho, a town founded in 1770 by Portuguese colonists from Morocco who had been ordered by Lisbon to resettle ...

The portrait by a French court painter is one of three displayed in a photo that came to depict the efforts of a U.S. Army ...

Although individuals played a large part in the events of 1775, the demographics, history and geography of Massachusetts also contributed to the attitudes of the men and women involved ...

The settlement urge was blocked by the intervening French and Indian War (1754-1763 ... The Company also invited certain malcontented Pennsylvanians called the "Paxton Men," from the Lancaster-Dauphin ...

from ignorant contempt and brutal violence” warned Richard Chandler, an English antiquarian, in 1770. A few years later ... Lusieri and his men dismantled a large part of the frieze from ...

Beyerdynamic has announced an update to its DT 1770 Pro and DT 1990 Pro reference-grade studio headphones. The MKII versions use the company’s new Tesla.45 drivers, which have a low, 30-ohm ...