There has always been a tension between art and commerce. Wealthy patrons commissioned works of art, and even though profit ...

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house ...

The Sistine Chapel Experience announced that one of its partners, producer Gary Lucchesi, received the prestigious Ordine al ...

Every year, millions visit Rome's famous sites, but few enter the exclusive Colonna Palace. This private home-museum, hidden ...

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, DC, houses murals by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn, among other 20th ...

For centuries, millions have traveled to Rome to gaze upward in awe at Michelangelo’s breathtaking ceiling inside the Sistine Chapel. Yet for most visitors, the ...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that an art history buff in Rome ought to see the Sistine Chapel. Less acknowledged is ...

Only a tiny fraction of tourists step inside the gilded halls of Rome’s most exclusive site: the Colonna Palace ...

Caravaggio's Medusa, believed to have been painted between 1595 and 1598, freezes the moment beauty turns to horror. The entirety of Frankenstein's lore also treads the same line. Medusa's wrathful ...

San Diego’s Little Italy is the largest in the world, spanning 48 blocks of its downtown. Once home to the city’s tuna ...

Fifteen-year-old Emberlyn, or “Emmy” for short, is described as an old soul with a big heart and a contagious smile.

The coffee shop in the Farm Fresh building on Sims Avenue makes some of the best coffee in Providence, so it’s no surprise ...