“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

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In the history of both painting and the culinary arts, late 19th-century France ... depicted French farming in a different light Courtesy Frist Art Museum A superlative Monet Haystack (1891 ...