While the mid-eighteenth century lavished in rococo, wide skirts that screamed decadence and wealth in their yards and yards of fabric, the end of the eighteenth century whispered restraint.
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Indeed, the eighteenth century proved nearly devastating to these paintings.
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But modern lotteries cannot compare to those of the eighteenth century.
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The eighteenth-century British novel appeals to an apparently dwindling taste.
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With Rameau, a man of the eighteenth century, it is different.
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Before the eighteenth century, states and corporations competed for territory and influence.
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A Condorcet voteThis proposal is named after an eighteenth-century French philosopher.
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His eighteenth-century descendants, living within a hardened racial regime, did not.
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Similar virtues elevate Rousset's other explorations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertory.
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At the close of the opera, Strauss's eighteenth-century characters achieve resolution.
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Victim politics is coterminous with the rise of democracy in the eighteenth century.
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By the late eighteenth century, monarchy had conquered most of the Western world.
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But we need to recall the technological realities of the late eighteenth century.
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By any measure, the United States was not a democracy in the eighteenth century.
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At Khanqah-e-Moula, the city's magnificent eighteenth-century mosque, Friday prayers were banned.
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The roller itself seemed like an eighteenth-century tool, something to wash horses with.
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Eighteenth century Italian playboy Giacomo Casanova, for instance, used half a lemon as a diaphragm.
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Some of the eighteenth century founding fathers only thought English and Danish people were white.
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The Anglo fascination with Indian burial lands stretches back at least to the eighteenth century.
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It has the high spirits of an eighteenth-century novel, but not the ramshackle mechanics.
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In some respects, at least, Marshall's views fit easily in late-eighteenth-century white Virginia.
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Eighteenth century Ireland seems an unlikely place to find a high profile lesbian love affair.
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James and Elizabeth's combative partnership was standard practice amongst female pugilists in the eighteenth century.
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Eighteenth-century Europeans didn't have to look far to find examples to prove their case.
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By the eighteenth century, European storytellers had finally given Pygmalion's statue a name, Galatea ("Milk-White").
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Then, in the eighteenth century, these insular provincials, lured by factory work, began migrating into cities.
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Born in eighteenth-century Great Britain, the modern factory was immediately understood to herald a revolution.
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In the eighteenth century, the philosopher George Berkeley argued that reality was all in our minds.
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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BOOKS Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home By Abigail Williams Illustrated.
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We stayed in a parador in Mérida that had been a convent in the eighteenth century.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits of European elites are often imposing.
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Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative website, Hazony quotes Johann Gottfried Herder, the eighteenth-century German poet and
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Eighteenth-century English overseers tried establishing rules ("nobody who tipples in the alehouse will get poor relief").
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The S.I. originated at the end of the eighteenth century with just the meter and the kilogram.
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By the mid-eighteenth century, Paris's intellectuals had erected a standard of civilization for others to follow.
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Johns showed me a collection of small telescopes, and discussed the eighteenth-century French astronomer Charles Messier.
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Genital "selfies," specifically, can be traced back to eighteenth-century Florentine waxes depicting the insides of human bodies.
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In the eighteenth century, physicians regularly administered inert pills when they had no real drug in their arsenal.
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It is in the eighteenth century that we find the more familiar, hardened boundaries of racialized American identity.
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An eighteenth-century channelled frame had so many borders that each side was as wide as the canvas.
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They're updated versions of the Turk, the eighteenth-century chess-playing automaton whose clockwork concealed a human player.
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Eighteenth-century parents adopted Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about "natural" parenting—cold air is good for a child!
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Those ideas—more or less orthodox policy today—were wildly original by the standards of the eighteenth century.
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Eighteenth-century patrons valued drawings as original, finished works, and auction records show that they were priced accordingly.
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The eighteenth century "savage" became the nineteenth century "primitive", no longer something altogether different but instead just backward.
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Eighteenth-century tignon laws in Louisiana made it illegal for women of color to go out without head scarves.
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Dougherty correctly noted that the nation's eighteenth-century governance structure wasn't designed to handle twenty-first-century partisan warfare.
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The hostel where Peter and Dr. Wagner stay is named for the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder.
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After the Portuguese conquistadores enslaved them, in the eighteenth century, they fled to the western state of Mato Grosso.
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Elizabeth Stokes fashioned herself the "European Championess" of boxing in the early eighteenth century; a title she undoubtedly earned.
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In the late eighteenth century, such a power grab by a conquering military leader was the most expected outcome.
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Eighteenth-century British landscapes often had such buildings dotted about their slopes, styled as temples, grottoes, and Merlinesque cottages.
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In the eighteenth century, beer was the equivalent of a cold-pressed green juice compared to the evils of gin.
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American men in the mid-eighteenth century southeast territory apparently took great umbrage at any pejorative thrown in their direction.
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Eighteenth-century Britain and France saw themselves as heirs to Palmyra, early Republican America as the new Athens or Rome.
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It was not until the eighteenth century that the red cap would have its renaissance as a symbol of revolution.
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Dunmore's fifteenth novel, published posthumously in the U.S., is set in Bristol, England, at the end of the eighteenth century.
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In stylistic flavor, "Benjamin" most closely approaches the eighteenth-century English taste for portraits of fetching individuals in fancy dress.
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At the turn of the eighteenth century, there were between 21804,219 and 210,21819 Jewish immigrants in the city of London.
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For decades, the history of the novel meant the history of the European novel, which started in the eighteenth century.
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Mining began there in the eighteenth century; between 21967 and 1960, more than fourteen hundred workers died in the coalfields.
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This complex, fierce, and majestic drama, from 1941-42, is based on a true story from the early eighteenth century.
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The comparatively straight lines and right angles of Covent Garden and then Mayfair in the eighteenth century are really the exception.
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Eighteenth-century dictionaries defined the word as "a profit, gain or advantage," argued Stephanie Litos of the DC attorney general's office.
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Why couldn't we come here, to an eighteenth century church on Indian reservation, and simply enjoy the land and its beauty?
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In the early eighteenth century, wealthy families would send their sons to England and other parts of Europe for their educations.
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On a remote island in eighteenth-century France, a woman is about to be married off to a rich Milanese stranger.
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There he observed that Montesquieu, widely known in late eighteenth-century America, deemed the pardon power necessary only under a monarchy.
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Instead, Gorsuch suggests that the scope of the Eighth Amendment was defined in the eighteenth century and that it may never change.
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The escape I wanted was no escape at all, because I couldn't help reading the eighteenth century classic through a contemporary prism.
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When the building was a Jesuit monastery, in the eighteenth century, the stove was used to feed the brethren and their servants.
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"We are not judging Isaac Royall, a man of the eighteenth century, by standards of the twenty-first century," the committee wrote.
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Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence.
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Around 50 people were reported to have been evacuated from the administrative building, which dates from the end of the eighteenth century.
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Only the most literal-minded originalists would claim that all the punishments dealt out under eighteenth-century law would be legal today.
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For the length of the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, truth seemed more knowable, but after that it got murkier.
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Started in the rural Carolinas and Western Virginia, rough-and-tumble expanded in popularity in the late eighteenth century into Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Most of the composers gathered for "Anima Sacra" were active in Naples or in Dresden during the first part of the eighteenth century.
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This third late-eighteenth-century ideology, still with us sporadically, seems saner than either authoritarian beliefs (however reforming) or Whiggish ones (however radical).
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Pancratia primarily consists of stories of various pugilistic encounters and is a wealth of information about how fights occurred in the eighteenth century.
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Modern constructions of beauty and biological race were heavily influenced by the study, replication, and measurement of classical sculpture in eighteenth century Europe.
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"Oroonoko" was adapted into one of the most popular plays of the Restoration era, and its renown endured well into the eighteenth century.
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He wore an eighteenth-century tricorne, a deerstalker, a round Hasidic kolpik, an Afghan pakol with a peacock feather tucked into its folds.
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In "Outlander," it's the Jacobite rebellion, an eighteenth-century Scottish uprising that will end in a bloodbath, two soul mates in its path.
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Philosophers of the eighteenth century diagnosed the likely outcome of this divide; the nineteenth century experienced that outcome, in furious, violent responses to it.
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In the early eighteenth century, pugilists took advantage of England's increasingly literate population and the proliferation of newspapers to promote themselves in the press.
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In the eighteenth century, anatomy was often taught to European medical students through waxen figurines called ceraioli created by trained ceroplasticians, or wax artists.
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Another was the birth of Hasidism, in the eighteenth century, which used a fervent democratic mysticism to wrest authority away from Judaism's learned élite.
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Printed public notices were seen on public walls in the fifteenth century, but the modern-day poster did not emerge until the eighteenth century.
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In the eighteenth century, after centuries of Muslim ascendancy in India, the wars of the Mahrattas and Sikhs had much of the quality of crusades.
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A third consecutive progressive term may write the Judeo-Christian tradition and the eighteenth century classic liberalism that inspired the Constitution out of America's future.
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"Woolens drapers," Satia writes, "were among the first major war contractors," because armies needed cloth for uniforms, which were widely adopted in the eighteenth century.
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Like him, his memoir has an affable, indolent, Whiggish air, which might have made him an adequate if forgettable prime minister in the eighteenth century.
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From early in his youth, John Marshall understood that his family's fortunes turned on the elder Marshall's maneuvering in the eighteenth-century real estate market.
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He was also one of the most fervent abolitionists in eighteenth-century France, and he brought that fervor to the final volumes of the Encyclopédie.
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In eighteenth-century England, it was common to grant a defendant a pardon conditioned on his or her transportation to one of the British colonies.
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However, it is not unlikely that a young woman in eighteenth-century Britain could exist in reality without her name appearing in any written records.
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The late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted Britain's Golden Age of Boxing, where the sport became both a "science" and a manly art.
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"The House of Patou, headquartered in a spectacular eighteenth-century building, made him feel that he was living in his favorite film," the publication wrote.
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I saw the place one summer, an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Vermont on a hillside that was once a farm but had become a forest.
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James Cook, the preeminent British explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century, has connections with many of the UK's former territories in the region.
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In the eighteenth century, King Carlos III, hoping to promote the sale of Spanish products, outlawed the production of all alcohol in the Mexican colony.
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The story of a nobleman's daughter who falls in love with an impecunious young tutor, "Julie" was the best-selling novel of the eighteenth century.
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By the eighteenth century, philosophers such as Immanuel Kant began to pull out from our more primordial urges an appreciation of aesthetics for their own sake.
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The error was widely recognized by the eighteenth century, but the rule of chaste monochrome persisted well into modern times, even as modernism suppressed figurative imagery.
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Finding himself beset by impulses to cruelty and sexual domination, he ascribed them to Nature, which, after the eighteenth-century French fashion, he equated with God.
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In eighteenth-century England, which Goldberg treats as the site of the Miracle's first appearance, fewer than one in five men had the right to vote.
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It appears a fool's errand to attempt to apply context to the Founding Fathers motives and their comprehension of late-eighteenth century weaponry and emergent threats.
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Sylvère joins in, the couple passing the laptop between them, dropping references to "Madame Bovary" and the eighteenth-century French playwright Pierre Marivaux, and laughing hysterically.
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It was founded in the early eighteenth century by a Danish-Norwegian missionary named Hans Egede, and for most of its existence was known as Godthåb.
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A kind of freedom and a kind of permanence, rather than, as eighteenth-century marriage looks to be, an unwilling exchange of one for the other.
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Pippa's husband worked on the eighteenth century in the history department at Leeds University; she had been the director of an archive at the city museum.
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Johnson was born in the late eighteenth century, most likely on a plantation owned by a family named Hawkins, in North Carolina, near the Virginia border.
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The "Fearsome Authority" room posts an eighteenth-century polychrome lacquered throne from the Quianlong period, while behind it a giant dragon is painted on the walls.
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Jaquet Droz, named after the late eighteenth century watchmaker and automaton builder Pierre Jaquet-Droz, designs and builds old-school mechanical masterpieces using springs, gears, and cogs.
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She loses her husband, for one thing, but even beyond that, she's back to being a single mother, which is far from ideal in eighteenth century Scotland.
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But the truth is that in matters of modern psychology, we are really hardly more advanced than eighteenth-century doctors pontificating about the movement of bodily humors.
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Mozart's libretto is based on a famous text by the eighteenth-century poet Pietro Metastasio, which, as of 1791, had been set to music nearly forty times.
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At Buckley's own magazine there were prominent voices who, echoing the aristocratic libertinism of the eighteenth century, argued that male sexual license was perfectly compatible with traditionalism.
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He can explain why the stripes of a zebra are outlined with colors when viewed with binoculars and why eighteenth-century astronomers misinterpreted the transit of Venus.
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Unlike his previous movies, which were all invigoratingly contemporary, The Favourite is set in the eighteenth century, during the reign of Queen Anne (played by Olivia Colman).
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The building dates back to the eighteenth century and was fully restored in 2005, making it one of the most well-preserved parts of the palace complex.
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Then, Weisz's performance as a domineering eighteenth-century seductress in The Favourite struck an unusual note, apparently stirring dormant queer feelings in every straight woman in America.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - In his A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens contrasted the trajectories of London and Paris amid the revolutionary upheaval of the eighteenth century.
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That time lasted from before recorded history up to the eighteenth century, when a small but increasing proportion of the population began to experience sustained economic growth.
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"Slammerkin" (2000), set in eighteenth-century London and Wales, opens with a sixteen-year-old girl locked up in an airless, shit-filled cell in Monmouth Gaol.
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In 1999, after the birth of Tor and the death of Nels, the Stumo family bought a ramshackle eighteenth-century house on a farm, over the Massachusetts line.
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A populist wave has swept much of the globe, including countries that don't have to reconcile a contemporary policy state with a constitution inherited from the eighteenth century.
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" At sixteen, he got a rare copy of the great eighteenth-century novel " Dream of the Red Chamber ," a book that he now describes as "my first lover.
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In 2016, the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies also named a mentorship award after Fliegelman, which was quietly renamed after Chu sent a letter to the association.
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Crimea had been a part of the Russian Empire from the eighteenth century until 1954, when Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Soviet Ukraine as a gesture of friendship.
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In 17260, Arthur L. Hayward edited Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, an anthology of biographies of eighteenth-century British criminals from a 21729 collection of original papers.
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Eighteenth-century British colonizers created the myth of the "terra nullius," the empty land, to deny the presence of people who had inhabited it for some 65,000 years.
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By the turn of the eighteenth century, ancestors of his had settled near the border between Maine and New Hampshire, at a spot now marked by Dennett Road.
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Behind a brown-stained plywood wall, a simulacrum of an eighteenth-century drawing room, McTeer was being strapped into a corset that fit over her light-blue gown.
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But look up and you'll catch a riotously colorful pair of eighteenth-century hoopoes perched improbably close to the ceiling, with a bird's-eye view of the viewers.
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A few months later, Pop and Bowie travelled together to the Château d'Hérouville, an eighteenth-century estate outside of Paris, to make what became "The Idiot," Pop's solo début.
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In a collection inspired by Lagerfeld's favourite period, the eighteenth century, feathers adorned new twists on the brand's classic tweed suits, which came with ankle length or fishtail skirts.
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Misleading or inaccurate information is not new, dating back to some of the more spurious revolutionary pamphlets distributed by our own founding fathers — an eighteenth century version of Reddit.
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But because of the lack of documentation about Elizabeth Wilkinson Stokes outside of these challenges, the greatest female boxer of the eighteenth century (and perhaps beyond) remains an enigma.
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What made him notorious was that eighteenth-century-style exile, imposed by his family, to an island that no one had ever heard of, in the north of Madagascar.
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Eighteenth-century British painting can be tediously formulaic, but Wright of Derby was unusual in combining formidable technical skill with a fascination in the Enlightenment's spirit of scientific inquiry.
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Tarkington's conservative politics were echoed in his attitude toward art, of which he was by now a substantial collector, especially of eighteenth-century English portraits: Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney.
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In his classic book, "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers," Carl L. Becker argued that these members of an ambitious minority were far from being ideologically neutral.
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In a collection inspired by Lagerfeld's favorite period, the eighteenth century, feathers adorned new twists on the brand's classic tweed suits, which came with ankle length or fishtail skirts.
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He was refused, three times, admittance to the École des Beaux-Arts, probably because of his early fondness for eighteenth-century rococo—too old-fashioned for the academy's reigning neoclassicists.
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Many of the people there trace their history to the late eighteenth century and the American Revolution, which saw exceptionally bloody and sadistic fighting between Anglo settlers and regional tribes.
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Women in long chiffon dresses, their hair in thick braids laced over their heads, swirled and curtsied around their partners, who wore the double-breasted uniform of eighteenth-century cavalrymen.
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In the late eighteenth century, the Founding Fathers feared the possibility that corrupt foreign influence would subvert American institutions more than almost any other potential threat to the early republic.
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For the better part of a decade, she immersed herself in every possible subject related to Frank: Poland in the eighteenth century, religion, mysticism, the Jewish enlightenment in Central Europe.
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The eighteenth century liked elegant Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar"); Romantics liked tragic Shakespeare ("Hamlet"); and we postmoderns favor the more self-consciously wrought and obviously symbolic romances ("The Tempest" above all).
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In a new piece called "Krieg_"_ ("War"), at the Berlin Volksbühne, in March, an eighteenth-century soldier in a bloody uniform staggered about the stage for an hour, screaming continuously.
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"De Brahm's map … was viewed in the period, as it is today, as a remarkable achievement of eighteenth-century cartography," said Katie McKinney, Colonial Williamsburg's assistant curator of maps and prints.
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The latter was meant to evoke a painting cycle depicting the daily life of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth-century Venice, installed in the Longhi room of the Baroque palace Ca' Rezzonico.
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"If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play," he said.
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The French have a long and ambiguous link to their forests, a source of conflict during the revolution in the eighteenth century between nobles and peasants seeking firewood and land for grazing.
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In Msezane's "Signal Her Return I," (2016) an eighteenth-century bell, lit candles, and a braided rope of blonde hair render present the absence of the black female body in African history.
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As the literary scholar George Boulukos argued in a 2008 monograph, the trope of the "grateful slave" emerged in the eighteenth century as a crucial part of the ideological justification for slavery.
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And in New Orleans and parts of Louisiana, the dominant language was French before it was English, although New Orleans was for a period under Spanish control in the late eighteenth century.
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Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree's boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.
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" In the early eighteenth century, a decisive break had occurred—the start of what Winters branded Romanticism, defined as the misbegotten idea that "literature is mainly or even purely an emotional experience.
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The strapping, broad-shouldered modern strawberry that Driscoll's exemplifies is the product of a cross between a Virginian male and a Chilean female that took place in France in the eighteenth century.
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The practice and study of sporting activities became mainstream in the eighteenth century in the West, but boxing, in particular, had not always been on the up-and-up in English society.
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The young Salieri got to know Pietro Metastasio, the reigning librettist of eighteenth-century Italian opera, and Christoph Willibald Gluck, whose lucid, elegant style set the tone for the Viennese Classical period.
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Departing from the architecture of the panopticon invented by Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century, Cheang constructs the exhibition around a rotating and inverted surveillance tower: a 3-D camera surveillance system.
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In the twentieth century, asides like these would be labelled metafiction, but in the eighteenth century, when the novel was coming into being, they served as the form's commentary on its own evolution.
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Generally, defendants were not allowed counsel before the eighteenth century and could not offer sworn testimony before the end of the nineteenth century; most trials, in any case, lasted only about twenty minutes.
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In the latter half of the eighteenth century, a new subculture emerged in England: the outlandishly dressed "macaroni men," who flaunted a proto-dandy brand of masculinity that was often mocked as effeminate.
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Among them: the eighteenth-century English artist Mary Delany, who began making her famed botanical collages at the age of seventy-two, after she noticed a geranium petal falling onto a dark table.
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The equal-tempered tuning of the modern piano is markedly different from tuning systems of the early eighteenth century, and the instrument's opulent sonorities cast a Romantic blur over Bach's harmony and counterpoint.
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"The Book of Night Women" tells the story of six enslaved half sisters living on a sugarcane plantation in the late eighteenth century who plot a rebellion against the overseer who fathered them.
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Increasingly widely available since the eighteenth century, they encourage visions of a particular kind of idealized traditional family life, making the Queen Anne architecture of Monika's dollhouse the perfect container for its contents.
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This was from a Jonesin' puzzle by Matt Jones, brought to my attention by Erik Agard; getting it relies on one's knowledge of both contemporary electronic dance music and eighteenth-century Scottish inventors.
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With her latest film, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (Girlhood) tells the story of an eighteenth-century woman artist commissioned to secretly paint the portrait of another woman, destined but unwilling to be wed.
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The historian Constance Classen reminds us that in the eighteenth century touching the objects in proto-museums—cabinets of curiosities and amateur collections—was invited and expected and even, in a way, compulsory.
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The way the story is usually told, it was in the eighteenth century that, for various unrelated reasons—sociological, religious, philosophical—it seemed important to distinguish personal likes and dislikes from disinterested appreciation.
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This book leaves us with the disquieting notion that guns—whether the slow and inaccurate weapons of the eighteenth century or today's models—do more than alternately cloak or expose human inclination towards violence.
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As the eighteenth century wore to a violent close, "guns were implicated in new kinds of deliberate homicides unrelated to property, passions, or duels"—most notably an attempt to assassinate George III in 1800.
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That transformation came in the course of the eighteenth century, when the courts began to understand ideas as things that could be owned and ownership of them as having the characteristics of property rights.
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Meanwhile, political scientist Thomas Milan Konda's book, Conspiracies of Conspiracies, maps out a family tree of the sprawling, frequently anti-Semitic theories that the United States has nurtured stretching back to the eighteenth century.
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With the help of local anarchists, GULF protesters travelled up the Grand Canal on motorboats, installing themselves on the landing dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which is housed in an eighteenth-century palazzo.
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He pioneered "originalism," a theory holding that the Constitution should be interpreted in line with the beliefs of the white men, many of them slave owners, who ratified it in the late eighteenth century.
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But while I can personally attest to the 'therapeutic' aspects of the drink, the medicinal aspect was thought—in eighteenth century Milan, at least—to be somewhat more heavyweight than a mere pick-me-up.
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The primordial example are the many covertly published books of eighteenth century France that included pornographic accounts of the private lives of the royal family, calumny that helped pave the way for the French Revolution.
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Behind him, Wall Street types sipped white wine, echoes of those eighteenth-century Americans who, in this place, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce, and whose dialogue on wares led to intimations of independence.
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Over the course of the eighteenth century, the optimism of Enlightenment social and political thought gave birth to a new idea of revolution that stood in stark contrast to the seeming senselessness of civil war.
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Starring Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller as a zany pair of eighteenth-century highwaymen, the film also features two minor characters known as Dixon and Winterburn, played by Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong respectively.
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Pundits like Stephens invite petty and obvious arguments, but it also sometimes feels as if we are back in the eighteenth century, when philosophers took up questions about the real meaning of the authentic self.
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Of the seven such works known to have survived, four are featured along with 13 related drawings in "Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France," a captivating exhibition at the Frick Collection.
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Rather, Schama is fascinated by figures like Dan Mendoza, a celebrity boxer in late-eighteenth-century England, and Uriah Levy, a Jewish lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, who purchased Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello, in 1834.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 98% (certified fresh)Synopsis: "On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman."
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"America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting" brings together more than five dozen works, by the ancien régime flatterer François Boucher (1727-228), the Jacobin painter Jacques-Louis David (21865-218) and more obscure names too.
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Abrams argued that early eighteenth-century literature was a mirror, reflecting reality as it was, while the new Romantic literature acted like a lamp generated by individual minds, peering into spaces illuminated by their subjectivity.
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Those are among the seventy-one elaborate crèche figurines, made in eighteenth-century Naples, that have adorned the base of the holiday spruce (pictured) in the Met's Medieval Sculpture Hall for more than five decades.
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The madness that gripped the British capital in the first half of the eighteenth century was the worst and the most notorious phase in the saga of gin, but it was certainly not the last.
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One early American conspiracy theory, propagated by religious officials in New England during the late eighteenth century, held that the Illuminati had orchestrated the French Revolution and were planning to import Jacobinism to the United States.
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When it was Alejandro's turn, he read carefully and fluently, as if he understood the poem's meaning, though it was from the eighteenth century: a time of simple emotions, travelling handymen, and light flickering on water.
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Soon, they will have audio accompaniment: half-century-old recordings of choreographer Yvonne Rainer reading, with the bare minimum of intonation, excerpts from the diary of William Bentley, an eighteenth-century Unitarian minister in Salem, Massachusetts.
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These meetings involve a lot more watching the king try to have a bowel movement and soliciting of dildos than one might expect of French high society in the eighteenth century, but that's Outlander for you.
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We remember the great explorers of the eighteenth century—James Cook, George Vancouver—but not John Harrison, the carpenter from Yorkshire who, after decades of work, made a clock reliable enough to reckon longitude at sea.
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In 2014, he spent more than thirty-six million dollars on a fifteenth-century porcelain cup decorated with a chicken motif, which had been owned, in the eighteenth century, by the famous Qing-dynasty emperor Qianlong.
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Commissioned by London's Royal Court Theatre, where it ran in 2013, the play is a historical parable that lampoons the eighteenth-century roots of free-market capitalism, with a cast of eighteen playing characters including Adam Smith.
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When Samuel Johnson (no relation to the eighteenth-century writer) is killed by a gun-toting madman while his toddler son looks on, he begins a peripatetic afterlife that stretches from the nineteen-sixties to the present.
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In 2015, an exhibition called "Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilization" displayed items acquired after the British occupied Australia in the early eighteenth century and, over the course of the next 200 years, massacred thousands of its aboriginal inhabitants.
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Probably not, but Homer's ocean is "wine-dark," not "wine-red," and, as someone who has been in a storm two hundred miles at sea, and has also drunk eighteenth-century Madeira, I can appreciate the similarity.
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Samuel's mother, Inès Escot-Meslon, from the Périgord gentry, brought into the marriage the charming eighteenth-century manor house of La Graulet, a few kilometres outside Bergerac, which Pozzi was to cherish and expand all his life.
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Opening on Tuesday, May 9, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, "Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth Century Europe" is described by organizers as the first exhibition devoted to such contemporary views of history.
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Given the whimsical beauty and deep smarts of her installation in the museum's portico, which pairs early-eighteenth-century Meissen porcelains with sculptures that Shechet recently made at the same German factory, she won't be the last.
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While paintings like these were not confined to the sala reservada, Sebastian's drapery, which once coyly revealed a significant section of the hollow of his groin, was doubled in size to conceal it in the eighteenth century.
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