In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on Friday opens the biggest exhibition ever devoted to art inspired by "Metamorphoses", Roman poet ...

Italy is making its artistic treasures more accessible to people with disabilities. Michela Marcato, who has been blind since ...

The recent restoration of a chapel came with a surprise: an angel depicted with the likeness of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ...

Archaeologists in Spain found a single elephant bone among Carthaginian weapons, offering rare physical evidence linked to ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

A strange story gets stranger.

An experiment inspired by Egyptian wall paintings and Roman manuals.

Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual ...

Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ...

A painting in a Rome church has prompted an investigation following complaints that a newly-restored cherub bears a remarkable likeness to the nation’s leader, Giorgia Meloni.

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.