The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC holds in its collection several 15th Century Italian Renaissance ...

An angel restored with the face of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been scrubbed off a wall painting in a central ...

At some point, you inevitably want to repaint your dorm room, apartment, or house. You visit the hardware store, where you’re confronted with a dizzying array of colors with names like Tippy Toes and ...

Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen features, such as large-scale arches and dome roofs. And many of these structures still stand ...

The Romans created iconic structures from concrete — from the dome of Rome’s Pantheon to the roads that stretched across their empire. Researchers now have a better idea of how 1. Ellie Vaserman at ...

Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other strategies, to make their famous concrete, giving the material ...

A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete.

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was recently found in a ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...