Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, still manages to mesmerize the masses. Some 230 years after her grisly demise, her most powerful legacy, in many senses, is her image, with its complex ...

“Yes, this season, Marie Antoinette has a hairstyle transformation that references a historical fact: a painting by Vigié Le Brun that gave its name to this hairstyle.” Marie Antoinette lived ...

To my eye the painting, which I saw recently in a Huntington ... although LACMA life trustee and collector Lynda Resnick has one of her Marie Antoinette portraits.) Tensions had been rising ...

Shortly after her arrival in Versailles in 1770 to marry the future king of France (at the age of 14), and especially upon assuming the throne in 1774, Marie Antoinette set about claiming the ...

Marie Antoinette comes with a lot of baggage ... interiors, beauty, and art in her own time and for centuries to come. Still, the French queen and her signature Rococo-era decadence had an ...

Painting her as an immoral woman who slept with her brother-in-law—as some of the pornography alleged—was one way for revolutionaries to argue the monarchy was corrupt. Marie Antoinette poses ...

Jacques Barthélémy Delamarre’s late 18th-century oil painting is thought to be a depiction of Marie Antoinette’s “Pompon,” one of the French queen’s many canine companions. Mystery ...

A royal chair created for the boudoir of Marie Antoinette achieved €2.6 million ... fiercely bidding as much for the contemporary art as the 18th-century furniture, according to Tavella.