Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Roman museums ... power and the Temple of Jupiter a stunning sight. Beneath the temple’s gold-plated roof, an immense gold-and-ivory statue of the king of the Roman gods presided over artworks ...

Not so on Capri, the idyllic island in Italy’s Gulf of Naples whose natural beauty has drawn gatherings since Roman times ... or Villa of Jupiter, with pornographic paintings and statues ...

Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

It has now been revealed that the Fife-born artist - who achieved global recognition for his works including his most famous painting The Singing Butler - chose to be cremated with no pomp or ...

Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

But time has also perhaps made it more difficult to see God’s fingerprints in Friedrich’s paintings. A Christian imagination, for example, might look at the artist’s famous painting “A ...

In an added bit of poetry, Moeckel pointed out that the Roman god Jupiter — Zeus in the Greek pantheon — is the divine wielder of lightning bolts. These mushballs also appear to play well with ...