Ducal Palace is the largest architectural museum in Italy, and was home to the Gonzaga family from the 14th to the 18th ...

The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...

Come the 14th of February, most of us will be happy ... the pubic hair of his many mistresses. Most 19th-century Britons ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

French calligrapher Claude Mediavilla in her monumental work, From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting, describes it as “the art of giving ... follower Xuanzang (7th century) had a number of ...

Soon after, Becket was canonized a saint. Another influential saint was the 14th-century Italian mystic and writer Catherine of Siena. Because of the increasing power of the kings of France ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

The 14th Amendment, the ACLU said, “is the cornerstone of civil rights in the United States,” and “every attack on birthright citizenship, from the 19th century until now, has been grounded ...

Even with the hike, the policy remains enticing, especially as Brexit continues to send Italian expatriates ... important art movements emerged in northern Italy in the last century, which still ...