When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

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Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

The Register presents five of Tissot’s works that reflect Christ’s path, with reflections.

Contemporary artists are reclaiming picture frames and transforming them into sites of storytelling, history, and embodied ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

What’s striking about this list of officially acceptable builders is the name it glaringly omitted: the most beloved—and most ...

Years ago during a trip to the US, filmmaker Pa. Ranjith visited the The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and was stunned. Under one roof, the museum captured ...

Can viewing art digitally match the magic of standing face-to-face with an original? Our research challenges long-held intuitions about the power of presence.