In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after ...

It was 1933 at the Ebell of Los Angeles, a prominent women's club founded in 1894 that had for six years occupied a majestic new building off Wilshire Boulevard, built in the Italian Renaissance ...

This popular European destination with incredible landmarks has a bad reputation for the unfriendliness of its locals, but ...

Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...

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The underlying property in Val d’Orcia once served the ancient abbey next door and includes centuries-old Cypress trees ...

Loggia dei Lanzi, in the Piazza della Signoria, is an open-air (and free) museum that was designed in the 14th century by Orcagna, an influential architect and artist. Below the building's curved ...

Heavy with Italian tradition, Chicago is home to some of the country’s best red sauce restaurants. From timeless classics, such as spaghetti and meatballs and chicken Vesuvio, to contemporary ...