Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

The 2015 movie Everest had several big-name actors added to its ensemble cast, all of them based on the real-life climbers of ...

There’s your story, there’s my story, there’s the truth,” says a character in “The Great Yes, the Great No.” “And then there’s actually what happened.” The man who poses that teasingly philosophical ...

With access to a unique archive of personal letters, this documentary brings the love story of Napoleon to life. The unpublished love letters Napoleon wrote to Josephine shed new light on Napoleon ...

Tourists armed with selfie sticks outside glittering mansions. Queues winding outside Instagram-famous restaurants. Impatient waiters shouting orders. Relentless noise. This is the mayhem I expected ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

Ancient inscriptions -- 800 to 2000 years old - have been discovered at Kadapa's Lankkamala Reserve Forest in Andhra Pradesh, in what is being said to the biggest archaeological find in recent times.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...

In 1909, Abraham Bredius, then director of the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands, released a slim volume on Johannes Torrentius, the first-ever monograph on the 17th-century Dutch painter.

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.

The painter Jack Vettriano has died at the age of 73. He was found dead in his apartment in Nice over the weekend, and will be remembered as one of Scotland’s most popular artists. Born Jack ...