Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

The role of the first lady takes on different forms throughout history: we retrace it through historical portraits, up to the ...

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German artist best known for his airy, idealized portraits of European royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and Neoclassical painting. Over the course of his ...

Queen Victoria hires a portrait painter to complete an official ... happy face." The action in The Empress takes place over different locations. At some key moments, scenes take place on stage ...