From March 14 to July 12, 2026, Palais Galliera explores the world of women’s fashion during the Enlightenment with its exhibition "Fashion in the 18th Century: A Romantic Herit ...
This exhibition invites visitors to experience the French art de vivre of the aristocratic and bourgeois elites on the eve of ...
An exhibition at Tefaf Maastricht presents 18th-century city plans not merely as scientific tools of the age, but great works of art in their own right ...
These moves, by both institutions and citizens, are part of a relatively recent global reckoning with the dark side of the ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Caroline Winterer (The Culture of Classicism) discussed how America's founders were influenced by Greek and Roman philosophies as well those ...
We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...
Atheism is trendy — again. Over the centuries it periodically raises its ugly head, from the ancients like Epicurus and Lucretius, who blithely described a purely material, pleasure-based, godless ...
The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw off ...
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