Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the ...

A wealth of Neoclassicist art has joined the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago via collectors Jeffrey and Carol ...

Ponant will offer an eight-day French Riviera cruise in 2026 aboard the renovated Le Ponant, covering iconic sites from Nice ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...