The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the ...

The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather on May 7 to elect a new pope in one of the most famous buildings in ...

The Barberes Sur excavation covered more than 842 square meters of the large villa. The residence features lavish rooms ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

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

A discovery in Aigai, Greece sparked intrigue among art historians and theologians alike. It was a 4th-century BC fresco known as the “Madonna ... As Christianity spread throughout the Greco-Roman ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...

One of the frescoes in the House of Phaedra captures a sensual scene between a satyr and a nymph—a frequent motif symbolising the wild, uninhibited forces of nature in Greek and Roman mythology.

A years-long inheritance battle between an American-born princess and her stepsons could soon reach a happy ending for the world’s only ceiling painting ... for the Roman Catholic Church ...

The frescoes are examples of the painting tradition of trompe-l'oeil, an optical illusion that tricks us into thinking we're gazing out onto 3D pastoral scenes through broken stone walls.