For all its transformations over the decades, Pistoletto’s work has maintained its focus on the fundamental dialectic ...

Rome is to celebrate Caravaggio on the occasion of this year's Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year with the biggest ever show on ...

Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance. It boasts works by legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, ...

We present an extract from Sacrifice for The Master, the debut novel by Dublin-born, London-based Nicola Onwordi.

From the Prado in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Museum of Art in Beijing and the Getty Center in ...

Even after achieving a modicum of mainstream recognition, Tilda Swinton has remained fiercely independent. Sure, she won an ...

As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

As for the right side of the artwork, one of the graces meets the goddess born on the shore. According to legend, after the birth, Venus was taken to Olympus, where she was greeted by the rest of the ...

Nintendo is no exception, and the company’s official X/Twitter account has done so with the debut of a new piece of artwork based on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. The art features a ...

Turner was the most famous British artist of the 19th Century, with a career which spanned half a century. Henry Vaughan was an avid fan who collected more than 200 works and shared them between ...

For centuries, Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence hung in a small Baroque chapel in Sicily—until a pair of art thieves absconded with the canvas in 1969. Now, a contemporary ...

Michelangelo Pistoletto was invited to create ... the challenge by reinterpreting the piece as one of his iconic mirrored paintings. The large reflective surface evokes Caravaggio's painting ...