This undated image provided by Italian authorities shows 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi's “Caritas Romana,” or “Roman Charity.” (Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Squad via AP) THE ...

Mario Sironi, “Composizione con elica (Composition with Propeller)” (1919), tempera and collage on board, 29 5/16 × 24 3/16 inches, Mattioli Collection, Italy ...

Walking through the streets of downtown San Rafael Saturday felt a little like stepping into 16th-century Italy. This year, the Italian Street Painting Marin festival at Fifth and A streets took on ...

The Carabinieri is currently hunting down two men who stole €27 million (nearly $30 million) worth of artwork by Rembrandt and Renoir from an art dealer in northern Italy, by posing as legitimate art ...

The largest exhibition of art from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Periods to be assembled in Miami from a private art collection is heading to South Florida this fall. Faith, Beauty, and ...

Carla Accardi, “Segni verdi” (1967). Enamel on sicofoil, 63 x 43 5/16 inches. (Click to enlarge) (Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York) Sometimes the quietest and most unassuming exhibitions turn out ...

"Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane" (W.W. Norton), by Andrew Graham-Dixon: More than 400 years after his death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is more popular than ever. Long lines form outside ...

Argentine prosecutors have charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi officer with attempting to hide an 18th-century Italian painting that was looted during World War II and had not been seen publicly ...

A major source of evidence for ancient Greece is painted pottery. The two most popular decorative styles are black-figure vase painting, practiced in the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., and ...

Consider the Mediterranean monk seal. The mammal has been prized on the Italian peninsula since ancient times, hunted for its meat, fur, oil, and medicinal properties—so much so that by the 16th ...