While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

Greg Jenner is joined in 16th-Century France by Dr Estelle Paranque and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi to learn all about controversial queen Catherine de’ Medici. Show more Greg Jenner is joined ...

The Korean artist discusses her fierce feminist manhwa debut, ‘Raging Clouds’ (Fantagraphics, May), which garnered a PW ...

An exhibition of precious Italian tapestries, displayed for the first time all together in the United States, has been set up ...

Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined around St. Peter's Square ...

Nine people were killed after a driver plowed into a crowd at a street festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local ...

Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

The incident happened as members of the Filipino community gathered to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day, Vancouver mayor Ken Sim ...

The origins of April Fools' Day remain unclear, but one popular theory traces it back to 16th-century France, when the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar. The origins of April Fool's Day ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

It’s more likely to trace back to the change of the calendar year, back in 16th century France. Pope Gregory XIII introduced his own Gregorian calendar, celebrating New Year’s Day on January 1.

In a further break with tradition, he was the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in more than a century, preferring Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, some 2.5 miles from St. Peter's, as his ...