Here’s a twist you didn’t see coming: a silk dress from the 1880s has been hiding secrets for over a century. This find mixes ...

Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at the ...

One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...