The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

The neighborhood is rapidly giving way to gentrification, taking a path far from its original roots as the home of warehouses, factories and a thriving garment district. Traces of its later ...

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 ...

Venice remains one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, and the wineries nearby aren't to be missed.

As the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Florence continues to enchant visitors with its sun-kissed piazzas, fresco-filled chapels, and crimson Chianti wines. In Italy’s cultural capital, art, ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying the ...

Just Stop Oil is to stop throwing soup on paintings and slow marching in streets as it announces its final protest. In a statement, the environmental campaign group said: "Just Stop Oil's initial ...

New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show our tastes changing too. They let us see the new world that artists and museum visitors found themselves in.

A $12 piece of art bought by a woman in Pennsylvania is believed to be an original Renoir painting. "I didn't know what it was, I just knew that I wanted it," Markow told ABC News. "This piece ...