The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their contemporary setting.

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The Basilica of St. Clement in Rome. Credit: Ninfamania / Wikimedia Commons At a time when Christianity was still struggling to consolidate itself against old pagan beliefs, a pope named after a Roman ...

The gory spectacles that unfolded in the Roman ... can God not carve out of this sorrowful world in the liquid white marble of eternity?” The critic George Steiner once claimed that art ...

Lulu Roman, the "Hee Haw" comedian turned gospel ... "I loved her joyful attitude," "God Bless the U.S.A." singer Lee Greenwood said in a statement. "She always lifted everyone up and her voice ...

Lulu Roman, the “Hee Haw” comedian turned gospel ... “I loved her joyful attitude,” “God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood said in a statement. “She always lifted everyone ...

Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once adorned the stately residence. The Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

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