With fairytale villages, picturesque rolling hills, fabulous food and world-renowned wine, Italy is an enchanting country ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

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

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

His engraving Battle of the Nudes shows a remarkable attention to musculature and movement, hinting at his involvement in ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

A 2020 study, however, revealed that Italian Renaissance painter Raphael used the pigment in his 1512 fresco, Triumph of Galatea. Perhaps the recipe hadn’t been lost after all. Either way ...

Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival, will represent Israel at the 2025 Eurovision. Raphael, 24, won the “Hakochav Haba” (Rising Star) reality contest on ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

Citrus fruit also figures prominently in the iconography of Renaissance art. "Hardly any picture of ... most famously by 18th-century Italian adventurer and author Giacomo Casanova.

It's one of the nation's favourite craft TV shows, and so we're delighted that Landscape Artist of the Year is back with a brand new series, with a release date coming very soon. Actor and presenter ...