On 7 February 1770, Louis XV formally asked for the hand of Marie Antoinette on behalf of his grandson, Louis XVI

On 7 February 1770, Louis XV formally asked for the hand of Marie Antoinette on behalf of his grandson, Louis XVI. The wedding took place some months later, and by proxy at that, which is to say in the absence of the groom! Then the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette was brought to neutral ground, stripped of everything Austrian and dressed from head to foot in everything French, and as for what followed, you know it yourselves. This marriage completed a series of 14 carefully planned dynastic marriages between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs, intended to strengthen the alliance between France and Austria.

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James Heath's 1806 engraving after Fuseli showing Patroclus's shade before Achilles

The engraving by the celebrated English master James Heath, executed in 1806 after an original drawing by the eminent Swiss-British artist Henry Fuseli, re-creates one of the most mystical and poignant scenes of Book XXIII of the Iliad. It is the moment when the Greek hero Achilles tries

Oil painting of a chestnut horse in a halter standing in three-quarter view against a dark brown background, with thick, loose brushstrokes.

New exhibition on animals in the work of the artist opens at the Eugène Delacroix Museum

The Eugène Delacroix Museum has unveiled a new small-scale thematic display devoted to animals in his work

Bronze cover of Salvador Dalí's “Book of the Apocalypse” stolen from museum in Issoire

A French museum has once again fallen victim to a brazen theft. On the night of Sunday, the cover of a book created by Salvador Dalí was stolen from a small private museum of modern art in the town of Issoire in central France. The cover weighs around 150 kilograms,

Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina

A server holds the phelonion of Father Photius Parks during the mass baptism of adults at the mission of Saint Anthony the Great of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At present, about 24% of all Orthodox Christians in the United States are adults who have

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James Heath's 1806 engraving after Fuseli showing Patroclus's shade before Achilles

New exhibition on animals in the work of the artist opens at the Eugène Delacroix Museum

Bronze cover of Salvador Dalí's “Book of the Apocalypse” stolen from museum in Issoire

Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina