Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors ...

The Renaissance artist’s paintings in the Italian town’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely ...

Artworks that feature the presence of UFOs or abnormal-looking objects and creatures have existed even before Christ was born ...

The once-lost 16th-century painting now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

The name Raphael was rare when when Social Security’s yearly name lists started. Now, there is renaissance of this Renaissance artist’s name.

The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.

In a novel use of statistics, researchers estimate the number of unattributed paintings, known as "sleepers," by the famous ...

The show of Tracey Emin is a first for Italy and presents a deep dive into decades of her confessional and sometimes shocking ...

One of the most notorious cases of the mafia stealing valuable paintings played out in 2016, when Italian investigators ...