Masterpiece in the Pinacoteca di Brera

Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera is a first class gallery on par with Italy's finest museums. The collection of Italian, mostly religious, art is spread out in 38 rooms and includes masterpieces by ...
Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera is a first class gallery on par with Italy's finest museums. The collection of Italian, mostly religious, art is spread out in 38 rooms and includes masterpieces by ...
The house museums and palace galleries of Rome are among the city's best-kept secrets.
Italy celebrates International Women's Day - La Festa delle Donne - with mimosas and a free museum day.
The Domus Aurea, also known as Nero's Golden Palace, is the latest attraction to offer visitors the chance to wear virtual reality headsets while touring the site. Visitors who tour the ...
Rome is often called an outdoor museum. But the capital also has dozens of museums to explore, not only in the Centro Storico but beyond the walls. Helping us locate all of these museums and ...
Update, December 2018: Local authorities changed tack and decided NOT to impose an entry fee to the Pantheon. For now. The Pantheon, one of the last major landmarks in Rome with free ...
The Palazzo Colonna is a luxurious house museum, noble residence, and oasis tucked into one of the busiest areas of central Rome.
Much of what we know today about anatomy was first discovered and documented in Renaissance Italy.
Turin has added another destination to Italy's contemporary art scene. CAMERA, the Centro Italiano per la Fotografia will showcase Italian and international photography in a 2,000 square meter ...
In 1499, Tuscan artist Luca Signorelli signed a contract to paint two remaining sections of the Cappella Nuova (new chapel) of the Duomo in the Umbrian town of Orvieto. By 1502 (or 1504, ...
A short profile of Roman artist Rachele del Nevo and her fun art project The Drawing Bike.
Before Christianity became the dominant religion of Rome, many people worshipped Mithras, the pagan God depicted here. Adherents believed that the world was created from the blood of a bull, ...
Emilia-Romagna's Shit Museum explores man's relationship to manure.
It all started with David. Michelangelo's statue of David was one of the first pieces of sculpture that I knew I had to see in person. Recognized worldwide as a symbol of Florence, David ...
The Vatican Museums welcome up to 25,000 visitors per day. Is it time for them to limit the crowds?
Recently, city officials in Rome unveiled the Barcaccia fountain, which had been under wraps for the past year so it could be cleaned. The Barcaccia is now gleaming, as you can see in the photo ...
Excerpts from the Art Issue of the New York Review of Books. Reviews on Veronese, Piero della Francesca, and Futurism. There's also a Michelangelo poem.
The exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci, The Universal Man" will be at Venice's Accademia, which owns 30 Leonardo works. It will bring together 27 other Leonardo masterpieces from various European museums ...