The British Museum has successfully raised the money to acquire a heart-shaped artifact memorializing one of England’s most ...

The museum raised the money to buy the Tudor Heart following a celebrity-endorsed fundraising campaign launched in October ...

Some of history’s most famous paintings contain hidden secrets, meanings and symbolism. We reveal the painting secrets here.

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series ...

Led by Selldorf Architects, the renovation is an act of architectural restraint. The Gilded Age bones remain intact, but the ...

A single painting can sometimes conceal many secrets. Here, we take a look at 10 famous artworks that are known for their ...

Gabrielle Goliath’s legal challenge over the cancellation of Elegy at the Venice Biennale revives an old story: the uneasy, ...

Romantic fiction has deep roots. In a description of King Arthur’s court written around 1155, the poet Wace presented his ...

The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth's likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize her resemblance to previous monarchs and reinforce her status as the legitim ...

On the evening of 6 May 1527, Henry VIII entertained an embassy from France at a lavish party in Greenwich. The festivities took place in a banqueting house and a theatre, both built for the occasion.

This week, the first "scholarly" biography of painter Hans Holbein received acclaim while fiction reviews reward the experimental. Bad Bad Girl (Granta), the “novel-cum-memoir" from Gish Jen “about a ...