At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

Vladimir Putin allowed cameras inside his Moscow residence. The footage shows lavish decor and personal spaces. It includes a ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election since 1492 with only five exceptions, and it is preparing to once again ...

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a ...

An exhibition devoted to the Art Nouveau designer highlights his suggestive, colorful posters, making an impassioned if ...

NEW YORK — Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death set off mourning across the Catholic world and days of ritual at the Vatican. Here are the key things to know about the ...

When you look at a painting of parfaits and sundaes by Wayne Thiebaud, do you think of the bottles and vessels lined up in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi? Or view a row of his cupcakes and see ...

Then, there are the abstract clocks that might take a few more seconds (sorry) to read but function more like a hanging piece of wall art. (If you ask me, the classic cuckoo clock falls into both ...

open image in gallery The sculptures depict a man and woman standing side by side (Archaeological Park of Pompeii/Alfio Giannotti) The tomb’s main feature is a large wall, peppered with niches ...

One of the wall paintings discovered at the Ashes, a Tudor-era guest house in northeastern England, depicts a dog's head. Historic England Archive For over two decades, Jen and Richard Arkell have ...