Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 16th-century painting 'The Fight Between Carnival and Lent' contains hidden playing cards. This detailed scene, full of lively activities and over 200 characters ...

In fact, Dalla Ragione has spent more than a decade scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to ...

A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic ... bad blood between Russia and Turkey dated back to the 16th century. This illustration portrays the conflict as a squabble between national foods ...

What is thought to be a 16th Century painting of a nativity scene has been found underneath another artwork. Northumbria University conservators were working on a centuries-old panel by an unknown ...

Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The V&A Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s ...

A study of 15th and 16th century painting and sculpture north of the Alps including artists such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean Fouquet and Albrecht Dürer. This course considers how social ...

The curators of an exhibition in Doha, Qatar, have done an incredible job of showcasing the art and architecture from ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

Hidden below in the South Wing, head to Fawlsey’s 2AA Rosette Cedar Restaurant, dating back to the early 16th century ... into an ornate hand-carved four-poster bed, looking out onto an ancient ...

An astonishing discovery reveals a 16th-century document containing instructions for space flight, centuries before humanity ventured into space. The Sibiu Manuscript, dating back to 1555 ...

Protesters have thrown soup at the glass-protected Mona Lisa painting in Paris. The 16th Century painting by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous artworks, and is held at the Louvre ...

Dealing with crime within a local community had been simple in the medieval era, as crime was less common than it became in the 16th century. Communities had been so small, by modern comparisons ...