Italian artist Giuseppe De Nettis (1846-1884) was born into a wealthy family in Barletta, Italy. He trained for a short time ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...

The ECSC’s proposal marked a major step towards reconciliation for France and Germany, two enemies who had been at war three times between 1870 and 1945: the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the ...

‌ Attack of the Prussian cavalry on the French infantry in the battle at Saint Quentin, France, in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 (Image: Universal Images Group via Getty) ...

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in continental ...

Prussia’s power on the world stage—which culminated in their stunning victory in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 and the unification of Germany under Prussian influence—would lead ...

The field hospital at Königgrätz is depicted in this colored illustration. Then, despite only lasting several months, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) led to nearly 200,000 military deaths.

As for France, it harboured hatred toward Germany for decades over Kaiser Wilhelm I’s absorption of Alsace and Lorraine into the new German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

Books Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History A review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism.' ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and a few others stayed ...