"The cultural and social significance of Black figures in 18th-century European art serves as a reminder of how deeply entangled visual culture was and remains with colonial ideology," said Iddrisu.

Depictions of artisans, labourers and tradespeople clumsily captured Indian society and discrimination, but the driving ...

The unconventional 18th-century Italian Baroque painter Giacomo ... A look not often encountered in European painting, it’s a self-interested dodge from accepting responsibility for creating ...

The paintings now contain Asian fauna and American ... In those eyes the painter has vindicated one 18th-century European inheritance we can never give up: the principle that all humans are ...

From rare 18th-century furnishings and objects to art by leading 20th-century painters ... $11.3 million—the auction record for a living European artist at that time. His work is held in ...

In 1741 a rhinoceros called Clara was brought to Rotterdam from India and taken on a two-decade-long tour of Europe by her Dutch ... and the influence she had on art, science and culture.

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The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family ... Zoffany that places viewers inside a fancy 18th-century English drawing room where a card game ...

During the 18th century, Europeans continued their admiration for Chinese ceramics, particularly porcelain, and accelerated their efforts to produce it in Europe. Porcelain made in Asia ...