Visual Arts Story Briefs

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).

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...

This image depicts a marble bust of Ptolemy I Soter (305 BC282 BC), a close friend of Alexander the Great.

According to the Library of Congress, the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia when "Pennsylvania militi...

Learn the story of Purim - celebrated from sunset-to-sunset on March 23-24, 2016 - which dates back to an ancient event when Jews were saved from cert...

Quakers were persecuted in England as well as in Britain's American Colonies. George Fox, who founded the "Society of Friends," was among those persec...

Britain's Queen Mary - known as "May" to her family members - is pictured here with her six children.

In May of 1381, peasants in the village of Fobbing were angry about a new tax. This led to an uprising against King led by Wat Tyler.

Image of a photograph depicting a Navy diver on the ocean floor after the crash of TWA 800 into the Atlantic Ocean off the south shore of Long Island ...

Joseph Warren, a popular and innovative doctor who advocated sterile conditions in treating patients and inoculation of small-pox patients, sent Paul ...

A failed O-ring in the Right Solid Rocket Motor caused Challenger to explode and Mission STS 51-L to fail on the 28th of January, 1986.

This image depicts the Reflection Nebula in the Pleiades - IC 349.  The Hubble Space Telescope took this image.What we actually see here is a sta...

Reflection Nebula, aptly named, looks much like a street lamp, surrounded by fog. What causes its reflection-like appearance?

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