Today, charming and sleepy Ravenna is often overlooked by travelers entranced by Rome, Venice and Florence ... But in its back streets are gems of ancient art and architecture.

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript ... volume Ming dynasty text on subjects ranging from agriculture to art, theology and natural sciences. Half of 800 remaining volumes burned ...

When the Visigoths sacked Athens. King Alaric enters Athens. Painting by Allan Stewart Public Domain Alaric ... So he turned himself against Rome. Alaric’s forces marched down to Greece along the ...

a lavish 16th-century property in the heart of Rome. The painting serves as an allegory of alchemy: Jupiter represents air and sulphur, Neptune water and mercury, and Pluto earth and salt.

The Register presents five of Tissot’s works that reflect Christ’s path, with reflections.

The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector. The work by Henry Gibbs, titled Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken from ...

A centuries-old painting that graced the walls of London’s Tate Gallery for more than three decades will soon be returned to the descendants of a Belgian art collector who was persecuted by the ...

"The mural must live because it was vandalized, and so it will live, and everything related to memory and what I have personally experienced must live," said 93-year-old Holocaust Survivor, ...

(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...