This undated image provided by Italian authorities shows 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi's “Caritas Romana,” or “Roman Charity.” (Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Squad via AP) THE ...

Imagine discovering an old painting hanging on your kitchen wall could be worth over $6 million. For years, an elderly French woman unknowingly had exactly that - right next to one of those portable ...

“There is something in the very name of Florence that suggests refinement and pleasurable emotions,” wrote Boston-born James Jackson Jarves, America’s first real collector of Italian Renaissance art, ...

The largest exhibition of art from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Periods to be assembled in Miami from a private art collection is heading to South Florida this fall. Faith, Beauty, and ...

"Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane" (W.W. Norton), by Andrew Graham-Dixon: More than 400 years after his death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is more popular than ever. Long lines form outside ...

Carla Accardi, “Segni verdi” (1967). Enamel on sicofoil, 63 x 43 5/16 inches. (Click to enlarge) (Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York) Sometimes the quietest and most unassuming exhibitions turn out ...

MILAN — An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on the island of Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso, and has been gathering scientific data to ...

In Manhattan last week was a handsome, vivacious brunette of ample presence whose Roman and Catholic distinctions are as the sands of the sea. A niece and godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna ...

Consider the Mediterranean monk seal. The mammal has been prized on the Italian peninsula since ancient times, hunted for its meat, fur, oil, and medicinal properties—so much so that by the 16th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child" by Italian painter Antonio Solari that was stolen more than 50 years ago and it is ...