An ambitious new exhibition opening at New York's Met Museum highlights the overlooked early Renaissance masters of Siena, Italy.

An Oct. 8 auction features jewelry, art and political memorabilia owned by longtime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who ...

In around 43,000 BC, someone on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi drew a warty pig on the wall of a cave. Little did they ...

The Major Arcana cards from tarot decks have traveled far from their 15th-century Italian origins to become influential in ...

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The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is fundraising in a bid to save an historic painting for the nation. Museum staff are raising funds to buy a painting of the Crucifixion by the Renaissance Master Fra ...

Take a tour of the county’s finest spots, chosen by our local expert and heavy on duck ponds, weatherboarded cottages and ...

Perched on the banks of the River Loire, Gien is known for its faience pottery and its medieval castle at the center of the ...

Ahead of the spookiest month of the year, a superstitiously unlucky day falls this week. Yes, this Friday is that Friday; ...

The ancient world's secrets stayed buried until a wave of archaeological discoveries in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection owns a suite of 54 illustrations that artist Clarence Gagnon painted for the 1933 ...