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

His Holiness Pope Frances passed away on Easter Monday aged 88. The Papal Conclave will be held at Sistine Chapel in Vatican.

Pope Francis honors St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of peace, poverty, and respect for creation in Assisi, Italy.

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The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

NEW ALBANY – Sandro Botticelli was an Italian early Renaissance painter. Some of his most famous works include The Birth of Venus, Primavera, and Madonna of the Magnificat. Renaissance artists ...

It is true that some Renaissance artists were elevated into a gleaming ivory tower, no one more so than Raphael. For Robert Browning, he was ‘Raphael of the dear Madonnas’. But the ‘Pre-Raphaelites’ ...

Under the name Scorpion Dagger, British artist James Kerr creates digital gif collages, mainly from northern and early Renaissance paintings.

I'm a little slow to the news that Christie's have organised and put on a Selling Exhibition entitled Siena and the Renaissance. Their display will be in London until 28th April and will move through ...

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