10,000 Tales From a 17th-Century Crypt

In Milan, bones that piled under a hospital over a half-century shed light on the health and habits of some of the ...
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Who Was the Black Figure in This 17th-Century Portrait? A Rare Letter Holds Answers

A 17th-century British portrait featuring an identified Black subject is shedding new light on the lives of enslaved attendants in aristocratic households thanks to the rediscovery of a letter written ...
Smithsonian Magazine

17th-Century Home Unearthed in Colonial Williamsburg

Part of the 17th-century foundation will be visible through a glass floor section in the new archaeology center. Brendan Sostak / The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Last spring, crews broke ground ...
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This little-known Dutch female artist eclipsed Rembrandt in the 17th century (before falling into obscurity)

In 17th century Amsterdam, Joanna Koerten (1650-1715) drew kings and scholars to her studio on Nieuwendijk Street. Her ...
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Rare 17th-Century Paper Cutouts Found Under Floorboards of Tudor House

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...
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The Dutch garden in the seventeenth century / [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XII ; edited by John Dixon Hunt]

William III as builder of Het Loo / K.H.D. Haley -- For profit and ornament : the function and meaning of Dutch garden art in the period of William and Mary, 1650-1702 / Erik De Jong -- "Belvedere." ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Recreate a 17th-Century Masterwork, an Entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History Got Creative with Butterflies, Bees and a Bit of Rosemary

The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...
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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls Season 1: Episode Guide & Ratings

Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of women in the home. This was an age when respectable women were defined by their marital status as maids, wives or widows. If ...