ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican : Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo uses his art to combat indifference and educate young people about the Holocaust.

Welcoming me at the entrance of the Vatican Library is Don Giacomo Cardinali, commissioner of the Exhibition Hall and ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Featuring vivid cultural textiles, eclectic accessories and elaborately constructed hairstyles, artist Thandiwe Muriu’s ...

The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...

The American Association of University Women, Astoria Branch, will present “Women in Fine Arts,” with Anna Magruder, Audrey Long and Kirista Trask, 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambium Gallery. Magruder, a ...

Rome's Galleria Borghese art gallery is offering an unusual Valentine's Day experience, taking its visitors on a journey ...

The photographs of Lebanese Palestinian American artist, based in Boston, Rania Matar tell the stories of young women through ...

X-ray and infrared imaging has revealed a long-hidden painting beneath "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," providing ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...