The Birth of Venus, a painting by the Italian artist Botticelli, depicts the goddess Venus at the shore after her birth.
The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...
Less than a five-minute walk from Trevi Fountain awaits a hidden 16th-century palazzo full of exemplary artwork and ...
Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his ...
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...
Mithila Palkar has been feeling touristy on her holiday in Rome as she has been going sight-seeing from one monument to the ...
The 'Figures of the Fool' exhibition shows how perceptions of madness have changed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
An old-world culinary tradition, pasta is a classic Italian dish. We interviewed "Chef's Table: Noodles" chef Evan Funke for ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved house in ancient Pompeii, featuring frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and ...
The Sacro Bosco's meaning is the subject of debate, with scholars alternatively describing the sprawling complex as a memorial, an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations ...
Pope Francis will go to Rebibbia on December 26 to open the Holy Door, a symbol for all prisons around the world. On ...