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 ...

Smee’s contention is that the rise of the Impressionists was a reaction to the ‘Terrible Year’ of the Prussian siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and to the subsequent savage repression of ...

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 ...

Spain is marking 70 years since the start of the Civil War. The military uprising against the democratically elected government on 18 July 1936 led to three years of war and then four decades of ...

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron attend the traditional Bastille day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in 2017. Photo by Getty Images When it comes to spectacles, Trump believed no one does it ...

The most sweeping overhaul of UK forces in 150 years treats troop numbers as a problem of the past, betting instead on drones, cyber power and digital targeting.