While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Alive with mythical sea creatures, gods and goddesses, putti and crashing waves, the drawings reflect the inspiration the ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

In the evocative setting of the Farnese Chapel in Palazzo d’Accursio, today the Bologna Ambassador prize ceremony took place. It is an annual event that celebrates strandout figures in different ...

Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi received the prize for her groundbreaking children's book ‘House of Wisdom’ at a ceremony in the impressive Farnese Chapel, at Palazzo d'Accursio, in Bologna. Reflecting on ...

Take a look around a four-bedroom home at this exclusive address – one of 24 residences attached to The Peninsula London ...

She has been the interpreter for Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts and Jude Law, but also for the Dalai Lama, Queen ...

Similarly, Domenichino's "The Virgin with the Unicorn" (1604-1605), found in Palazzo Farnese, features the likeness of Rome's scandalous beauty Giulia Farnese, the mistress of Rodrigo Borgia ...