1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1980. Public domain ...

While parts of the country's heritage wound up in prestigious museums abroad, others have suffered humiliating fates at home.

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...

Empowered by new wealth and inspired by the humanist fascination with the individual, patrons of art in the early period of the Renaissance began asserting themselves into commissioned works of ...