In Giustiniani’s “great room of ancient paintings,” this subversive Cupid rubbed shoulders with thirteen other Caravaggios (including the Lute Player and that unsettling Inspiration of St Matthew), ...

A discussion of the thriving intellectual life of Medieval Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. During this period of ...

Think of an ancient empire and you’re probably picturing an iconic site like the Acropolis in Athens, or Rome's famous forum.

A statue of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor and revered Stoic philosopher, was repatriated to Turkey after being illegally ...

The Gordon Parks exhibit “Homeward to the Prairie I Come” is on display at the Wichita Art Museum through Sunday, July 27.

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

This isn’t the Tuscany you think you know; this region, nestled in southern Tuscany within the province of Siena, stretches ...

A trip to Paris doesn’t have to be a cliché. We asked authors, wine critics, artists, and other people with great taste and ...

High Streets across the UK are failing, with a number of shops closing down, and the story is the same for Witham. The Essex ...

Pawnshops sell the valuable, the historical, the rare and the weird — but it is a business that is frequently misunderstood.

The nearby city of Pompeii – a modern city for its time – was buried under nine feet of volcanic ash, with the pyroclastic flow killing everyone in the city immediately due to its extreme temperatures ...

Known as the ‘Pearl of the Tyrrhenian’, this little-known stretch of Basilicata goes all out on natural beauty and southern ...