Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

While being Spanish or Creole offered a person considerable social and economic privilege in the 18th century, the indigenous elite proudly defended, even amplified, their distinct cultural patterns ...

Romney was one of the leading society portrait painters of 18th-century Britain and his paintings ... his Study of a seated lady and Study of a standing woman both sold for £1,664 ($2,105 ...

Portrait of Adèle Papin Playing the Harp, oil on canvas, c. 1799. The 17-year-old sitter, the famously beautiful daughter of a prominent family, was later rumored to be Napoleon's mistress ...