Despite our familiarity with bridges, their history has scarcely been studied. The most famous is Old London Bridge because, as the song tells us, it fell down. Engineers have often stressed that it ...

What were the surprises in bringing Monet to London? At the Courtauld Gallery ... a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (which lent a Waterloo Bridge scene), stresses the importance ...

The stone London Bridge was begun around the year 1176 and completed in the early years of the 13th century. In 1831 the destruction of the old bridge began in earnest after a lifetime of some 622 ...

Whistler's paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...