During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

Casanova was a cynical seducer, but also studied law, took holy orders, played the violin and carried out Venice’s most ...

With love stories come love tropes—themes that give us expectations of how two characters (or sometimes more) will execute ...

On February 14, 1929, seven men were assassinated by an Al Capone-led gang during Prohibition in Chicago. The Valentine’s Day Massacre became a watershed moment in Prohibition history, with police and ...

When we think of Valentine’s Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass ...

A private art school in Paris founded in 1889, the Académie Vitti was one of the first schools to accept female students and to allow women to study from male nude models.