There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...

One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 as the calls for revolution grew ...

An oil on board folk art painting by Clementine Hunter, magnificent 19th century clocks and clock sets, a portrait painting attributed to Sir William Beechey and another after Guido Reni... It’ll be ...

This was how Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was portrayed at the height of his career by artists such as Charles Jervas,Richardson and Van Loo. The famous portrait ... Our oil painting is a direct ...

This tondo (a circular work of art) is a masterly demonstration ... Parmigianino painted this “Self-Portrait” to demonstrate to Pope Clement VII his dazzling talent and earn the bounty of ...

First attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, the portrait depicts Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, who would later become Pope Urban VIII ... Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The painting, on view until 23 February ...

In Rome, a Caravaggio painting that has never been exhibited before has been publicly presented. The portrait of the young Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, can be admired for three ...