Explore the enchanting world of the glass armonica, an 18th-century invention by Benjamin Franklin, and its unique music.

The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that looks suspiciously like the artist. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pierrot (1718), detail. Photo: Collection of the Louvre, Paris. Watteau was born in ...

Classical music lovers will soon get a rare chance to hear a masterpiece just as it would have sounded when it was written in the 18th Century. Fortepianist Daniel Maltz, dubbed the "Master of ...

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But today’s handful of harpsichordists point out the undeniable fact that only they can make this 18th-Century music sound the way it did in the 18th Century. When they are not giving concerts ...

By Milena Lazazzera More than 100 porcelain perfume bottles from the 18th century are being offered for private sale in connection with the auctions of “The Giordano Collection” of Italian ...

Veteran broadcaster Chris Wallace is saying goodbye to his Washington, DC perch as he lists his stately home in the Kalorama ...

YORKTOWN— Bring your dancing shoes and a revolutionary spirit to keep in step with ballroom dances of the 18th century during ...

Upcoming sales have plenty to interest lovers of clocks, historical prints, china and chandeliers. Or how about a collection ...

World number two Carlos Alcaraz was knocked out of the Paris Masters by 18th-ranked Ugo Humbert of France who swept to a ...

Held on Dec. 6 to 8, the 19th-century-holiday experience features a candlelit 200-year-old furnace complex, holiday shopping, ...