A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

Reasonable people — yes, including Catholics — see the need for law and desire a well-ordered society, but these laws must be ...

Nor do we have any statues of Roman emperors or commanders performing ... classicizing invention is Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting, The Oath of the Horatii, which shows the three patriotic ...

While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

Elon Musk was so happy about Donald Trump's inauguration he gave two stiff-armed salutes that looked like what the bad guys in World War II movies do.

But as Louvre president Laurence des Cars has admitted, a visit to the overcrowded museum can also be a “physical ordeal” and some facilities urgently need updating. Last month, President Macron ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Spread across Türkiye from the Bosporus and Aegean coast to eastern Anatolia are incredible under-the-radar museums that often get overlooked by travelers.

An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

She was lying in a bin bag and nothing suggested she was an invaluable relic. A marble statue of a woman, potentially dating back to the Hellenistic era, was discovered near Thessaloniki. The find has ...

“Jacques-Louis David’s painting ‘The Oath of the Horatii’ [1784–5] seems to have started the idea of it being a Roman thing ... Augustus of Prima Porta statue with caricatures of ...