For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, ...

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday aged 88, had a special relationship with the church, and landed on it as his final ...

A weekend stay at Trinity College offers a taste of campus life and plenty of Sally Rooney vibes, without the drama or exam ...

The work of art that changed everything for me is Francis Bacon’s “screaming Pope”, after Diego Velázquez’s 17th-century ...

Aurangzeb’s Deccan campaign to subjugate Golconda and Bijapur as well as his Maratha adversaries was funded to a great extent ...

With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on ...

Some homes date to the 1600s; others are far more recent. Ancient trees, modern conservation techniques, and acres of flowers ...

In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.

In 2014, art historian Mina Gregori said she had found 17th century painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in ...

It's not the Taj Mahal, but the palatial Anantara Marbella Resort, in the province of Malaga in southern Spain, has an ...

As funding for arts nonprofits gets eliminated by a hideous regime, arts events become more precious than ever. Vibrant ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...