Højerup Church on the Cliffs of Stevns, Zealand

This view of Hackney Church was taken from Pig Well, one of several nearby wells known for the purity of their water.In medieval times, the church had been dedicated to St Augustin...

During the 1870s, on returning from his lengthy tour of Europe and the Near East, Church supervised the construction of Olana, a grand neo-Persian-style mansion where he would spen...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

This drawing shows the beautiful interior of St James Church. It was built by the Granville family at the end of the 15th century in the perpendicular style and is considered one o...

All Saints Church was burnt down in 1675, and rebuilt between 1676 and 1680. The portico was finished in 1701. Travelogue author Celia Fiennes visited the church during its rebuild...

Frederic Church, one of the leading landscape artists of the Hudson River School, produced an outstanding gallery of pictures both of his own country and of the different exotic la...

Among the new genres in Dutch painting developed during the Golden Age was that of paintings of architectural motifs. This sub-genre took on its own independent existence, in a man...