New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...

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

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...

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

She uses archives, Renaissance paintings and a car she drives across the Italian countryside ... And so I’m looking, and I see the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. She is in kind of a blue robe ...

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

A woman tripped over and hit a 16th-century painting by Italian Renaissance artist Moretto on show at Brescia's Santa Giulia ...

Visitor trips and tears Renaissance painting at Brescia museum, Italian Deputy PM Salvini hails Trump for showing that ‘a new ...

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 ...