What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
Six days after the United States elected Abraham Lincoln to serve as America''s 16th President, South Carolina held a meeting to endorse a call from t...
Photograph of Maude Adams as Peter Pan, taken in October, 1916.
Max Schmelling was a German boxer who had great success in the ring. He also helped Jewish people who were threatened by Nazi policies.
A breviary, once owned by Mayer van den Bergh, is sumptuous in the extreme (meaning that it is very rare and priceless book).
This image - one of the Ghent-Bruges workshop illustrations in the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary - portrays daily chores framed by strewn flowers in a ...
This Union Flag (consisting of the crosses of St George and St Andrew) was first used in 1606. It signifies the Union of Scotland and Britain (when J...
Although El Greco was born in Crete, he is most-known as a famous painter who lived in Spain.
This illumination on parchment, by an unknown Italian miniaturist who was likely working in Florence during the 14th century, is from the Villani Chro...
Medieval glass artisans used a board to plan the designs of their stained-glass windows. It was like putting together pieces of a puzzle.
During medieval times, the Wheel of Fortune was not a game - it was a concept of life. This image depicts an illumination illustrating a Wheel of Fort...
They may remind us of Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), but Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are a different species. Learn more about them...
Early in the 17th century, William Buckland began to find some interesting fossils in the Stonesfield quarries (now known as the Taynton Limestone For...
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