The Birth of Venus, a painting by the Italian artist Botticelli, depicts the goddess Venus at the shore after her birth.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

Five years after it sold for $120,000, Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual banana artwork is expected to fetch a seven-figure sum ...

ALBAWABA - Sotheby's, one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles, announced an ...

The art-straunt is experiencing a giddy revival in Manhattan, and Iwan Wirth’s Manuela, stuffed to the brim with ...

The restored painting by French master Jean-Antoine Watteau features a figure that looks suspiciously like the artist.

Opened in 1964, Rose & Crown claims to be Italy’s first pub, and has the beer-soaked woodwork to prove it. The vibe here is ...

The capital of Umbria — the central Italian region known as Italy’s “green heart” — Perugia is one of ... Now we have a ...

Scholars have in fact long debated whether or not the painting is a Raphael original. While it requires diverse evidence to ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

In an exhibit this fall, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores social trends using sports-related art and design ...