The first (and last) king of haiti

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

How one monarch unified his nation and created a medieval superpower

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

Art and soul The oldest and largest public art museum in the English-speaking Caribbean, established in 1974, features both historical and contemporary art – paintings, portraits, wooden creations and

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

An African perspective on Augustine of Hippo’s thought