Pope Francis’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on ...

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Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

The exhibition of Renaissance painter Caravaggio’s “Magdalene in Ecstasy” at KNMA, Delhi, presents the opportunity of a ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

With its imposing gates and long path through an arabesque parterre to a grand front door guarded by his-and-hers cannons, Villa Sola Cabiati is a bastion of privacy, as royalty, Hollywood luminaries ...

Today the new post, published on Facebook and Instagram, with a portrait of the mafia boss. Below, as happened in November, dozens of enthusiastic comments with praise for the boss. "Beautiful ...

The best new nonfiction we’ve read this year explores trauma, the color blue, the devastating shortcomings of western media, and a lifetime’s worth of love and sex. Meanwhile, a previously published ...

Caravaggio (b. 1571) is among the newest of the Old Masters. Though in one contemporary's estimation he was egregius in urbe pictor, the outstanding painter in Rome, he fell out of fashion a few ...