From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and granted more power than their counterparts back home.

His subjects also range from 16th century maritime scenes to modern urban portraits. All of his paintings use symbolism to convey exploration, imagination, and intrigue. He references Spanish history ...

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

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is ... with White as expedition artist—defied Spanish claims to North America and arrived ...

Many pieces on show in the Spanish Gallery are from the personal collection of financier Jonathan Ruffer, the main backer of a £150m regeneration project in Bishop Auckland ...

An exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of an institution that has stayed above the divisions of Spanish politics ... The great 16th-century painter Raphael (1483-1520) is being honored with ...

He suggested that, with government support, the palace’s warren of corridors and state rooms might be repurposed as a hotel — ...

Día de Los Muertos is just around the corner. Here are four fun ways to celebrate the Mexican holiday in Stockton.

The artist’s quiet, bittersweet reflections suggest the possibility of redemption through the the kinds of artistic labor that allow humans to shape a sense of reality.

Some experts speculate that Shakespeare could have used the room to change costume during performances in the late 16th century Sonja Anderson A full 82 copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio will ...