Empress Irene of Athens, a pivotal figure in Byzantine history, navigated a world of political intrigue and religious ...
The Cornell Art Museum has launched its latest exhibition, featuring an impressive collection of 30 handcrafted mosaic portraits of renowned cultural icons.
Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo uses his art to combat indifference and educate young people about the Holocaust.
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...
Welcoming me at the entrance of the Vatican Library is Don Giacomo Cardinali, commissioner of the Exhibition Hall and ...
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
The changes were made Thursday in the wake of an executive order Trump signed calling for the federal government to define ...
The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.
Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.
Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...
Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?