W hy bother looking at drawings when paintings are so much bigger, more ... Titian lived in Venice, ... Raphael, The Three Graces, c. 1517-18, from Drawing the Italian Renaissance at the King's ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic more than 10 million tourists flooded Venice every year. But now with tourists gone, for the first time in living memory residents have the city all to themselves. As ...

And a deeper dive into the remarkable story of Saint Benedict the Moor, born in Sicily to enslaved African parents in 1524, later canonized by the Vatican, and now venerated by Afro-descendant ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

She uses archives, Renaissance paintings and a car she drives across the Italian countryside. Her passion isn’t just cultural. She says our global food supply may well be at stake.