The challenge when visiting Rome is deciding what to skip: there are so many churches, archaeological sites, piazzas and ...

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 ...

Baiae once served as the ultimate escape for Rome’s wealthiest citizens, a coastal retreat where politics faded into the ...

An exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art focuses on the Florentine painter’s time in Rome and its transformative effect ...

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

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.

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.