The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...

After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

The Botticelli painting had been kept at Betterton House, near Wantage, Berkshire, since 1944. When the painting sold at Sotheby’s in 2024, Alex Bell, Sotheby’s worldwide co-chairman of old ...

A rare early painting by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli has been placed under a temporary export bar in the hope it can be saved for the nation. A rare early Botticelli painting of the Madonna ...

Image size 5 5/8 x 8 inches. Approximately 15 x 17 inches.

The painting depicts an image of the Virgin Mary sitting on a throne with the child of Christ. It is believed to have been painted in the 1470s, early in Botticelli’s career. The Department for ...

and the campaign gives a nod to one of the most famous pieces of art that uses it: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. In a photo by Tyler Mitchell, Williams is caught in motion, stepping out ...

The famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin spent most of his life working on the monumental structure The Gates of Hell.

Auguste Rodin’s Kiss is one of the most famous sculptures in art history and a well-known masterwork of the sculptor.