In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

The images of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ at the Allentown ... museum's collection are works from other cultures, like this 18th century painting from Peru called "The Virgin of Montserrat." ...

Officially titled 30 St Mary Axe, the Gherkin is a 2003 commercial ... and the spires of London's churches in Canaletto’s 18th-century paintings. While there’s no evidence Bram Stoker was ...

The church bells rang--three tolls for each of the invocations and nine for the concluding prayer. The Angelus traces its beginnings to the thirteenth century ... proper devotion to Mary, Marialis ...

He appointed the Twelve: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to ...

From tapas and sangria to late night flamenco shows and countless historical sites, Spain is bursting with unique experi ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US private equity executive Steve Schwarzman is shaking the London art market by paying record prices to ...

The Louvre’s senior curator for 18th-century paintings, Guillaume Faroult, suggested cleaning the artwork, setting in to motion an extensive project done in collaboration with American ...

These structures may have been part of an earlier residence on the site that had been constructed in the early eighteenth century, and it is possible that they were demolished when the current ...