Die Fledermaus, written by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), opened on April 5, 1874, at Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven’s (1770-1827) opera Fidelio premiered in 1805. Johann Strauss II, the ...

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism ...

Bolivar started as a privileged Creole elite who grew obsessed with the idea of independence after traveling through Europe and witnessing Napoleon’s rise. When Spain fell into crisis under French ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

In the middle of this political crisis, a small church, the Collégiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Roquemaure, 673km south of ...

As a scandalous image of shameless masculine power and sensual strength, Thomas Lawrence’s spectacular painting Satan Summoning his Legions seemed to be a subversive advertisement for the libertine ...

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

“Battles,’ said Voltaire, ‘are not lost by [numbers] of killed and wounded, but by the effect…on the survivers.’ The same holds now of the principle of freedom.” The United States Magazine & ...

One of the cheeriest faces in New York right now can be found at the Morgan Library & Museum, in an exhibition of drawings on loan from the Musée du Louvre. It’s Pierre-Paul Prud’hon’s black-and-white ...

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent. An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of ...