After a recent research expedition to Vienna, visiting the Empress’s residence (now a museum) and seeing her belongings up close – her sketches, photographs and famous dresses – provided me ...

David drew a vicious sketch of her in the tumbril ... and won the bet by taking everything off and having it weighed. When Joséphine became empress, Gillray’s cartoon Ci-devant occupations – or – ...

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The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

(The Conversation) — In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year ...

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Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million. It is currently on offer at an art fair but even ...