Don't Forget to Call Your Mother

Letter 1909-07-13 from Ester Bauer to John Bauer, consisting of eight pages written on the front and back of two folded sheets of paper. Main writing handwritten in black ink. The ...

It is one of the oldest easel paintings in Lithuania, closely linked to Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania (reigning 1401-1430), and early Christianisation in Lithuania. Up unti...

Today, Mother’s Day is what several people have safely forgotten. You forget it so much 'conservation’, mother can always forget father’s....

Renoir once quipped that had God not created the female breast, he might never have become an artist. Indeed, the full, womanly bosom figures prominently in Renoir's loving portray...

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...

Fan with lithographic design, paper, made in France, ca. 1855. Fan made of paper with a coloured lithographic design. The sticks are of papier mache, black with formal gold rococo ...

Nicolaes Maes initiated his artistic studies in his native city and completed his training in Rembrandt’s studio where he worked from the late 1640s until 1653. From his early year...

Silk underpants, Great Britain,1890s. Black silk underpants with mother-of-pearl buttons.  Silk and mother-of-pearl....