The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

A museum in Whitehaven is set to host a 'spell-binding' exhibition of 'kinetic sculptures.' The Beacon Museum will host the ...

Hands clasped in joy, face framed by a wimple, she could with equal élan propose that Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard ter ...

They abandoned their relationships, jobs, and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn ...

Pen and ink are foundational tools for many artists to shape their work. For Providence-based illustrator Conor Nolan, they are also some of the implements he uses to craft masterful drawings that ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

The birds are out! The flowers are budding! And my picnic blanket is officially rolling out! There’s nothing quite like the ...

Children’s author Eric Carle, who lived in Northampton for decades, was known for books including “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...

Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, ...

Wyatt was an Olympic champion ski-jumper, a military camouflager, an author, a yodeller, a painter, a keen naturalist, and a ...