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 ...

While much of Sicily's appeal is its Ancient Greek ruins and gorgeous medieval architecture ... boasts a wooden sculpture of the Madonna and a child and has some fabulous Baroque and Neoclassical ...

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne In 1508 ... painting in the history of Western art. Mary of course was the most common subject in Medieval and Renaissance art. Here, Mary is Leonardo ...

Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Rocco Ritchie, Madonna's second child, was born in August ... Rocco is now a painter, who makes art under the name "Rhed." ...