The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

It’s a contemporary movement that merges the delicate pastels, ornamental elegance, and sensuality of 18th-century Rococo with modernist abstraction and feminist perspectives of contemporary art.

The Black Figure in 18th-century Art. By David Dabydeen Last updated 2011-02-17. ... abolitionist campaigner and the first historian of the British abolition movement ...

This tendancy to fantasize about how life could be was prevelant in art during the Rococo movement of the 18th century. Artists of this time were drifting away from the dark, rich works of the ...

Dress codes shown in 18th-Century art can tell us a lot about race and identity – both then and now. Cath Pound explores the details hidden in the "Casta" paintings of Latin America.