Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...

An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern era. Buildings were constructed that were bigger and ...