Europe's royal palaces are not only architectural wonders but play an important role in the culture and history of their ...

Statement Pieces” marks the prestigious museum’s first foray into fashion, with a sprawling exhibition dedicated to the ...

Highlights include a crystal-embroidered Dolce & Gabbana dress inspired by 11th-century mosaics ... featuring a Sun King motif is staged before a baroque portrait of Louis XIV himself.

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France ...

For example, France’s King Jean II Le Bon passed a ... and then 24-pound, gold Louis coins. By the end of the 18th century, the term “franc” was reintroduced and a new law defined the ...

For example, France’s King Jean II Le Bon passed a law that created ... and then 24-pound, gold Louis coins. By the end of the 18th century, the term “franc” was reintroduced and a new law defined the ...

And while the Louvre may not historically conserve garments, clothing is, of course, depicted throughout its many galleries, seen in everything from ancient bas-reliefs to 18th-century portraits.

His relationship with this music has lasted more than half a century, and when we spoke to him earlier ... head of the Royal Academy of Music at the court of the Sun King himself, Louis XIV, and it ...

The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling that occurred from approximately the 14th to the mid-19th century, during ...

Their motive, even by the turbulent politics of the day, was an unusual one: The king was unable to fulfill ... studied by European medics until the 18th century. At the westernmost limits of ...