In the 1930s, National Geographic sent the painter Normal Wilkinson—who invented dazzle camouflage—on a road trip around ...

London’s famous 1666 fire destroyed most of the city, including old St. Paul’s Cathedral. This anonymous 1675 painting shows the great fire of London as seen from a boat in vicinity of Tower Wharf.

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls itself “Washington National Cathedral”: a ...

The fire that engulfed Notre Dame in Paris on Monday, severely damaging a building that had stood for more than eight centuries, felt unprecedented. And in one sense, it was: How else can one describe ...

Something beautiful happened late last year. As 2024 wound down, the world celebrated the rebuilding of glorious Notre Dame de Paris, which a mere five and a half years before was engulfed in ...