Combined with an important selection of parade and ceremonial weapons and armour from the 16th century, these monumental tapestries take visitors into the world of Renaissance history, fashion and ...

Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri showed her fall fashion collection of loose ... told Reuters that the designs drew on 15th and 16th century styles. Obama applauds Harvard for rejecting ...

Muslims in India fear that clashes over the ‘true’ origins of an historic mosque will be just one example of a coordinated ...

In recent years, it has also become a major fashion industry event ... in the house’s illustrious history. Staged at the 16th-century Milan monastery Chiostri di San Simpliciano, “Bamboo ...

At least nine people were killed when a man drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, and an unknown ...

Their transition to Europe was marked by a transformation towards fashion. By the late 16th century, European aristocrats, inspired by Persian emissaries, adopted heels as symbols of power and ...

At the opening of the 63rd Congress, Wilson delivered his tariff message in dramatic fashion. He chose to become ... Over more than half a century, high import duties on raw materials and ...

Parr also hoped – vainly, I suspect – that we might see the guillotine-angled stage as a monstrous version of a sixteenth-century fashion item, a neck ruff. Most viewers simply observed the reality of ...

The 16th president wore the top hat in war and ... Likely a descendant of the 17th-century steeple, or sugarloaf, hat, which was in turn influenced by the headgear worn by soldiers, the top ...

From the creation of serif typefaces by Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century to the development of more modern ... While Art Nouveau fell out of fashion by around 1910, it left a lasting legacy.

Constructed in the 16th century using mortar bricks and lime plaster, the helical step-well descends seven levels and contains 11 rooms below ground. Sen said, adding that her aim is to raise ...