For the first time, the Prado museum in Spain is bringing together eight seminal artworks by the Greek artist El Greco.

The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery ...

Nine monumental paintings by El Greco once decorated monastery walls in Toledo, Spain, where the Greek-born artist spent most ...

This description tells us that if we want to start taking a painting ... Italian poetry, the woman who is idealized into some sublimated form who's completely unbelievable, in a way. The Virgin ...

From Tracey Emin’s bed and Banksy’s Armoured Dove to Picasso's Guernica and Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait, our favourite works ...

With more than 900    churches, hundreds of palazzos, 10 World Heritage Sites and 280 fountains (the Trevi alone sees some 700,000 euros in coin donations every year), Rome can be an overwhelming city ...

Raphael is considered one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. His masterful technique and untimely death have ...

A woman proclaimed a miracle when her Virgin Mary statue began to 'weep tears of blood.' Now, a new DNA analysis of the blood ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...