The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling celebration of selfish opulence. Rather than investing in their society—say, by ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...