A 16th-century mural has been discovered in Venice, a rare surviving example of decoration that once adorned many of the city's facades.

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While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

A vanguard of ultrarich investors are betting on a particularly down-and-out asset: the city’s commercial properties.

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

However, tests of the stone show it to be over 10,000 years old, meaning that if a civilization built this pyramid by hand, it would have taken place before this region sank under water - more ...

When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and what do you feel? Does it conjure an old memory, a sense of spirituality, or confusion? Artists and ...

Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history. Geoffrey Todd Smith ...

Whitman’s work shouldn’t just be a one-day-a-year delight. Let’s dust off the old paintings, put some of them in storage, and make room for this bold new work. It would serve as a daily ...