The Arts Story Briefs

Norman Rockwell listened to FDR's annual speech to Congress, in 1941, about "four freedoms" and created four paintings. They became icons of the war y...

Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, died on April 8, 1973 while entertaining friends at dinner. Learn about the man who had a long and a prolifi...

Achilles is extremely upset that Hector (Hektor) has killed Patroclus and grieves over the body of his dead friend and cousin.

This painting of Paul Gauguin (Man in a Red Beret) is attributed to Vincent van Gogh.

Simon Bening created this illumination for the DaCosta Hours which was published around 1515. It appears for the month of November and depicts peasant...

William Penn's treaty with the Delaware, when he founded the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681, helped to have peaceful relations between the Colonists a...

This illumination on parchment, by an unknown Spanish miniaturist who was likely working in Spain during the 14th century, is known as the Peszach Hag...

In the 11th century, doctors made house calls. At the time, the purpose of medicine, as described by Avicenna in his "Canon of Medicine," was the "pre...

Determined that Marie Antoinette would be condemned to death, French-Revolution leaders put her through a trial on October 14, 1793.

Life was not easy for President Johnson and Robert McNamara (Johnson's Secretary of Defense) as the Vietnam War dragged on.

Pieter Bruegel - usually called "Pieter Bruegel the Elder" - is known as the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century.

One hundred years after Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg (on October 31, 1517), a conflict called the Thirty Years W...