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A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist ...

Pirates, kings and kidnappers feature in songs on website showcasing origins of modern music industry The music industry was hungry for hits and churned out songs in their thousands – love songs, sad ...

A 17th-century British portrait featuring an identified Black subject is shedding new light on the lives of enslaved attendants in aristocratic households thanks to the rediscovery of a letter written ...

Caravaggio, Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Veronese, and Bernini: it’s a roll call of the greats, and just a handful of the artists whose Renaissance and Baroque works have traveled from their ...

An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization through a fictive 17th-century collector’s room of wonders Anne Wallentine | History Correspondent “The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch ...

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Pale skin, red cheeks, and blonde hair were beauty necessities for Spanish women in the 1600s. But the effects of these cosmetics came with a poisonous price—some even causing blindness. The room ...