You never know what you might find while browsing thrift stores and estate sales -- including valuable, centuries-old wall ...

Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Caserta and Benevento More abstract paintings show colorful foliage or decorative elements, photos show. A centuries-old painting found at the convent.

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Rivers have eroded the landscape over millions ... at least 35,400 years old. That likely makes it the oldest-known example of figurative art anywhere in the world—the world’s very first ...

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Located at an altitude of 2,350 meters in the Mantiqueira Mountains on the border of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states, these paintings are believed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old.

After over 700 years of nearly continual use, this convent in Aversa was deemed unsafe due to structural problems, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of ...