To the shock the art history community ... the affection expressed by a mother to her child, who grabs her hand as any baby ...

London’s National Gallery is showing works unseen together for hundreds of years in an exhibition that looks to the dawn of a new era ...

Either way, the name comes from the Old Norse word for “wharf” — and Bruges did indeed arise as a trading centre. By the ...

The finer details: For those after some early sun, the Turkish Riviera is an off-season paradise and seven nights at Liberty ...

The Flemish who live in this part of Belgium call this city “Brugge” (BROO-ghah), but the French half of the country (and ...

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight ... The arrangement places a central panel depicting a Madonna and Child—housed in the Galleria dell’Accademia—between two wings ...

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight ... The arrangement places a central panel depicting a Madonna and Child—housed in the Galleria dell’Accademia—between two wings ...

For a medieval Catholic ... If you go back into antiquity, do you find images of the Madonna as the mother of the savior child? Well, what you have as the model for the Madonna actually is ...

Have you ever been somewhere that felt so magical that you had to pinch yourself? That’s what visiting Bruges was like for me ...

He tracked that theme in the symbols, stories, and rituals that keep appearing in different cultures, coming alive in literature, art and religion ... ritual where a child has to give up his ...

I wish that we'd had a child ... With Madonna, the film of her 1990 world tour. Andy was 32 - seven years her junior - and living a bohemian life in London's Notting Hill. A former art student ...