To what extent is the famous Italian art movement Arte Povera a ‘poor art’ rebellion or a rich man’s game? After a major survey in Paris, we look at the history of the Faustian pact Germano Celant ...

Two years later, they began to presage the Futurist movement with their famous “Futurist photodynamics”, the earliest example of experimental photography. The Futurists, and especially Boccioni, would ...

In a novel use of statistics, researchers estimate the number of unattributed paintings, known as "sleepers," by the famous 20th-century Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani to be at between 20 and 120.

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its legend to a brazen Italian thief who stole it from the Louvre and vanished for ...