The Butterworth Center houses one of six known Venetian ceiling paintings in the United States. Cleaning the painting alone could cost over $1 million.

Eric Lee started drawing as a child and just never stopped. Over the past few decades his art has evolved far beyond the stick figures and yellow suns in the corner that most kids start at. Now his ...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, remains one of the most enigmatic and iconic figures in European history. Her ...

And the fact that the paintings are 700 years old adds to their verisimilitude ... it was the city of Florence. In the first ...

The house in the picture of Rong Xi Zhai by Chinese painter Ni Zan in the late 14th century is our favourite room.

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

Most visitors to Morocco want to see Marrakesh, Fes and Tangier, and for good reason. But Rabat is Morocco’s most underrated ...

A local attorney is being honored again for the work he does for people who can't afford his services. For the second year in ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries.

George Michell and his team documented the ruins for over two decades. The author tells the story of what lay beneath, layer ...

The 17th-century paintings ... Hawley called the painting “an incredibly compelling image that I think will find broad appeal even beyond traditional Old Master collectors”.