Italy’s Culture Ministry spent €30 million ($35 million) on a Caravaggio portrait of future Pope Urban VIII. The long-hidden painting resurfaced in 2024 and now joins other Caravaggios at Rome’s ...

ON JANUARY 11th Hamburg celebrated the long-delayed inauguration of its Elbphilharmonie, an architectural gem of a concert hall which cost the taxpayer €789m ($836m). Now Potsdam, capital of the state ...

A portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When Thomas ...

Glimmering with royal palaces and landscaped gardens from its proud Prussian past, Potsdam is the most popular day trip from Berlin and Germany’s best impression of Versailles. While most visitors ...

In addition to the Coliseum and the Roman Forum, tourists exploring Rome and Italy’s greater Lazio region can now be among the first public visitors to ever step inside an important ancient tomb. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever dedicated to Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, is currently open at ...

The exhibition invites visitors to contemplate an artistic legacy defined by the artist’s profound emotional depth and unmatched technical mastery. Photo: Alberto Novelli & Alessio Panunzi Welcome to ...

Maffeo Barberini lived up to the lofty expectations of his aristocratic parents by being elected pope in 1623. Aside from expanding the papal states, repelling a radical French theological movement, ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula" (1610), oil on canvas, Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, Naples (Archivio Patrimonio Artistico Intesa Sanpaolo, photo Luciano Pedicini, ...

MILAN — Luxottica Group is in the process of merging with French lens maker Essilor SA, but this is not stopping it from further building its structure. The giant Italian eyewear producer is acquiring ...