Centuries after Jan van Eyck painted The Arnolfini Portrait many unanswered abound about this masterpiece of the Northern ...

It’s rumored that Cesare Borgia slept with his own sister—but according to her husband, the truth was even darker.

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The basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo has a treasure trove of works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Bernini, and more. And it just ...

The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs ...

Ignored by many art critics, the bed in many Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation has a strong symbolic meaning ...

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people.

Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.

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Our Christmas songs and carols turn up in some surprising places. They come from some surprising places, too. “Ding, Dong!