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King Charles II may be remembered for his hedonism, but he supported a wide range of scientific and artistic endeavours that would help shape the modern world. Elinor Evans explores the strides made in the Restoration, from safer navigation at sea to putting women on the stage

Slow Art Day (April 15) encourages art lovers to engage with art more intentionally.

Securing the services of Willem Van de Velde and his son was a coup for Charles II – and it put wind in the sails of England’s own maritime art tradition

Nigel Pickford gives readers a real sense of immediacy as he describes the contentious political climate, and the hazards of sea life.

A portrait of the 17th-century polymath and intellectual superstar Paolo Sarpi hangs in a house that once belonged to a wealthy tyrant

Although most mainstream scientists and most of the developed world now accept the theory of evolution and the scientifically established age of Earth and the universe, there is still a group of people that resist the status quo and insist, based on a particular literal interpretation of Genesis 1-11 in the Hebrew Bible

Exhibition explores what is beauty by drawing parallels between artifice and performance of then and now

Michael Robbins examines the strange, uneven, fascinating poetry of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

The Lord Protector’s puritan restrictions didn’t go down well in his own time. His statue is a salutary reminder of the killjoy threat

A LATE 17th century painting has been sold for £26,000 at an auction last week.