This fabulous suite of diamond and sapphire jewelry belonged to the same family that produced the patron saint of royal jewelry collecting, Queen Mary

Fan with the Judgment of Paris, ca. 1725–50, gouache on parchment with paste emerald rivets and mother-of-pearl sticks (Cincinnati: Taft Museum of Art) ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊ Now on view at the Taft…

Grande Galerie carpet with landscapes (detail), Savonnerie Manufactory, after designs by Charles Le Brun, 1680; knotted and cut wool pile (symmetrical knot), overall (confirmed): H. 353 × W. 128 in…

From the press release for the exhibition opening this fall at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 16 October 2026 …

From Routledge (and discounted until December 31, with code ADC26) . . . Sarah Joan Moran, Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (New Y…

Covered Tureen on Stand (Pot-à-oille), 1735–38, designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier and made by Pierre-François Bonnestrenne and Henry Adnet, silver (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.182). ◊    ◊…

From Colonial Williamsburg: Symposium on Historical Dress | Well Suited: The Work of the Tailor, 1640–1840 Online and in-person, Colonial Williamsburg, 5–7 November 2026 In-person registration due …

Call for papers - Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Deadline: 20 December This conference also launches a new collaborative database s...

From Brepols: Ann Perrin, De l’avènement des « arts décoratifs »: Écrits et réflexions, 1693–1798 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026), 364 pages, ISBN: 978-2503620220, €75. Also available via open acce…

Now on view at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: A Day in the Eighteenth Century: Chronicle of a Parisian Townhouse Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 18 February — 5 July 2026 Curated by Ariane …

Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois, Botanical and Medicinal Chart, detail, 1774, engraving with watercolor (Paris, MNHN, Central Library; source: archive.org, 2016) ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊ From the Call for …

Excelsior with Allegorical Figures of Liberty and Justice, late 18th century. ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊    ◊ This summer the museum will also present its own unique copy of the Declaration, as Jennifer Schu…

Now on view at the Musée de la Mode et du Costume in Arles: Amazons! Horsewomen and Fashion Icons Musée de la Mode et du Costume, Arles, 22 May — 20 September 2026 Curated by Valerio Zanetti …

From the press release for the exhibition: WORN Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 27 March 2026 — 21 March 2027 Curated by Vanessa Jones WORN at the Rijksmuseum is an intimate display of fashion garmen…

From the press release for the exhibition: Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder and the Younger: Overpainted and Uncovered Lower Belvedere, Vienna, 13 May — 11 October 2026 Curated by Katharina Lov…

From Yale UP: Meghan Kobza, The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026), 368 pages, ISBN: 978-0300276213, $35. The first full history of an extra…

From Penguin Random House: Andrea Wulf, The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris (New York: Knopf, 2026), 512 pages, ISBN: ‎978-0593803400, $38. F…

This incredible labor of love is now available for free download at arthistoricum.net: Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Incognito: An Annotated Edition of the Archival Documentation for Saxon Electoral Prin…

From Haus Publishing, with distribution by The University of Chicago Press: Monika Czernin, with an introduction by Dominic Lieven, The Emperor Incognito: Joseph II’s Journey through Enlightenment …

A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced.

Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

From Penn State UP: Rebecca Zorach, Spontaneous Objects: A Natural History of Art and Its Others (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026), 286 pages, ISBN: 978-0271100432, $…

From Bloomsbury: Thom Richardson and Paula Turner, eds., with photographs by Cassandra Parsons, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms and Armour from Asia, Africa, and the Ottoman World (London:…

From Colonial Williamsburg: Clay Stories: A Ceramics Symposium Online and in-person, Colonial Williamsburg, 4–6 June 2026 Colonial Williamsburg is pleased to host the 2026 bi-annual ceramics confer…

From Penn State UP: Rebecca Zorach, Spontaneous Objects: A Natural History of Art and Its Others (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026), 286 pages, ISBN: 978-0271100432, $…

14K likes, 95 comments - popcorn.paris on March 23, 2026: "Nouvelle expo mode à Paris : le corset de Marie-Antoinette fait sensation ✨ ❣️Au Palais Galliera, cette exposition brillante revisite la mod...

Sanne Maekelberg, University of Leuven - KU Leuven. Vilnius, Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, 29.–30.05.2026, Eingabeschluss : 10.04.2026

From Bloomsbury: Petra Zeller Dotlacilová, Performance Costume in 18th-Century France: Louis-René Boquet between Tradition and Reform (London: Bloomsbury, 2026), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1350531000, $1…