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).

Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter, born in Leiden during on the 15th of July, 1606.

On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband about treating women fairly in the new government. He did not heed her advice.

Beginning in the fifteenth century, the Medici family, more than any other, presided over this time of cultural change known as "The Renaissance."

Group of Starving African Men and Boys Removed from a Captured Dhow.

During the Battle of Saipan, members of the U.S. military rescue a dying infant.

The "Judenrat" of the Warsaw Ghetto (Jewish people in charge of the ghetto) were given a "resettlement" order on the the 22nd of July, 1942.

Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), from Virginia, was an aristocrat who participated in many key events during the American Revolution.

As Wat Tyler meets his fate, at the hands of King Richard II's swordsman, the young monarch addresses the rest of the rebels. They were fed-up with i...

King from the age of ten, Richard II gave-up the throne of England in September of 1399. His next place of residence, at least for a short time, was t...

Historians view Armand-Jean du Plessis, also known as Cardinal Richelieu, through differing eyes. To some he is a hero; to others he is a villain.

Five brothers, whose last name was Ringling, formed an American circus during the late nineteenth century.

Even before Irish-Catholics arrive from Ireland, during the Potato Famine, religious-based riots occur in Philadelphia.

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