On Friday I wrote about some bizarre (to us) eighteenth-century children’s fashions. What became the dominant fashion for kids of the nineteenth century? Sailor suits. To look at photos and portraits of kids from that century, you’d be forgiven for… Read More
In 1914, Velazquez's painting of Venus (1657) was slashed in six places at the National Gallery by an angry Canadian suffragette. The painting was repaired.