Il Mendicante moro (“The Moorish beggar”), by the 18th century painter Giacomo Ceruti, has been purchased by the Uffizi Galleries
Cera una volta. Sculture dalle collezioni medicee (Wax Upon a Time Sculptures from the Medici collections): the exhibition at the Uffizi Galleries
“Florence and Europe. Arts of the Eighteenth Century at the Uffizi”, the exhibition with masterpieces by Goya, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Le Brun, Liotard, Mengs and many other masters
18th century Austrian mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg found to be exceptionally well preserved, thanks to unusual embalming method
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine de’ Ricci, a painting by Pierre Subleyras, acquired by the Uffizi Galleries
John Stone has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare’s Othello to be sent to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1765
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Witchcraft trials in Norway ended in the 18th century; when it came to the Sámi people, a persistent fight continued against what was termed the art of witchcraft, and missionaries took over from the judicial system
Far more female infants than male infants died in Europe from 1700–1950. Researchers have been investigating why
Genetic analysis and archaeological insight combine to reveal the ancient origins of the fallow deer, the results have been published in two new studies
