The portrait, painted in around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII.

In this exclusive excerpt from Thirteen Perfect Fugitives, the FBI tracks one of the best known suspects in the $500 million theft from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork. The ...

St. Peter’s Basilica is arguably the most famous Christian worship space in the world. It is a massive church in the style of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent ...

David Hockney: On the Wall is at Hidden Gallery on February 25-March 25. Find out more at www.hiddengallery.co.uk, or visit the gallery in person at 6-8 The Clifton Arcade, Boyce’s Avenue (10am-5pm ...

Glasgow street artist Alex Coyle, with two colleagues, spent four days painting a mural of McTominay’s famous World Cup goal outside Hampden Park.

Fortune favors the bold, and that is exactly why some of the greatest movies of all time are also some of the most ambitious, ...

It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramskoy’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an ...

CHICAGO — Norman Rockwell’s “The Dugout,” a classic portrait of slumped Cubs, dejected Cubs, defeated Cubs, a morose team resigned to an existential slog of failure, now hangs in the Art Institute of ...

In what will likely be a major draw for the museum, the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday installed its first-ever Norman Rockwell painting, and it depicts the Chicago Cubs. “The Dugout,” Rockwell’s ...

After Leonardo da Vinci’s death in 1519, the Mona Lisa entered the French royal collection and passed through the hands of several rulers, including King Francis I and later Louis XIV. The painting ...