The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

Archeologists discovered, thanks to modern technology, that ancient sketches by Leonardo depict real tunnels under the Sforza ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...