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 ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some ...

At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by ...

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

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

For the families of slain pro-Communist Greeks, the find in the Park of National Resistance is reviving a wartime legacy kept dormant to avoid reigniting old animosities. The small site has become ...

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 ...

According to the group: “The first photographic image of the demolished a century and a half ago coastal wall of Ottoman and late Byzantine Thessaloniki is a fact… it has already changed the image and ...

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Faithful pray before the Salus populi Romani (Salvation of the people of Rome), a Byzantine-style painting that features an image of Mary, draped in a blue robe, ...

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 ...