Side-Aisle at St Bavo Church in Haarlem

View of St Nicholas's Church, the parish church of Plumstead in Kent (now in London). Plumstead was a prosperous village since medieval times, with drained marshes suitable for gra...

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...

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...

The Ti-Tzu (left) is a Chinese flute and is traditionally bound with waxed silk and decorated with tassels. The So-na is a copper wind instrument - a kind of oboe - played with a d...