In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Alive with mythical sea creatures, gods and goddesses, putti and crashing waves, the drawings reflect the inspiration the ...

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

Beginning in the ’90s, formerly rural regions transformed into far-flung enclaves for the elite, and vast acreages became ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, born in the 4th century in the Roman Empire, was one of the most intellectual and respected female ...

Amal Dagher (at home in his studio near Paris, amid his renderings of paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael and other masters ... of a Versailles ceiling fresco at the visitor’s home in Connecticut.

Never has the phrase "good things come in small packages" been so accurate. Rhode Island might be the nation's smallest state ...

Sections of the complex were half-heartedly excavated in the 18th century by the Scottish painter and amateur treasure ... have yielded marble statues, frescoes and ornate architecture, evidence ...

Inside, though, the South Solon Meeting House has a secret unknown even to some who drive through the tiny Maine town every ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

Jen and Richard Arkell have owned and operated the Ashes, a quaint guest house nestled along the wooded banks of the River ...