1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings

Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to arg...

Animals in the human community
Association first human with other animals. Mystical feelings toward animals and it’s reflected in folktales. Many wild animals have been exterminated...

Oudry’s Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century France
These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian...

Warfare in the Seventeenth Century
In the seventeenth century the art of war underwent a very quiet revolution. Although the weapons changed from the pike to the socket bayonet and the...

India: Art and Culture, 1300–1900
India: Art and Culture 1300–1900 is a tribute to the rich and varied culture of India as represented in the later art of the subcontinent, dating from...