Italy is a country that enchants every traveler, blending history, art, and beauty into a living masterpiece. From the ...

The city of Siena, nestled in Tuscany’s rolling green hills and surrounded by medieval villages, is a living work of art. Once a prosperous banking center in the Middle Ages, strategically located ...

Italy is a country that delights the senses at every turn, from cobblestone streets and ancient piazzas to sun-soaked ...

"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” is more than just a pre-history of the Italian Renaissance. Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, and Patriarchs and ...

After seeing "Siena" at the Met, Landau and his wife planned a week-long trip to Perugia, Assisi, Florence, and, of course, ...

Almost equally sumptuous was “Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended Part II,” a pop-up retrospective organized in New York by the Rome-based Mattia De Luca gallery. (Part I was held in Rome in 2022.) Still ...

Chop down a poplar tree. Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes. These you’ll need to coat in a barrier of plaster and ...

The dazzling aerial photos honored by the 2025 Siena awards offer "new ways of seeing familiar places," as one judge puts it.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Italy and the Cleveland Museum of Art have announced that a 13th-century manuscript leaf representing the letter “A,” once part of a choral ...

Installation view of “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” on view Oct. 13, 2024–Jan. 26, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo: Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Met). “Beauty ...