Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered up for more than ...

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover a hidden Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered by a false ceiling ...

The Baroque period gave Rome its most dramatic appearance, defining the visual style of the city, long a millefoglie of historical epochs, that remains to this day. Roman Baroque is splendor amplified ...

Caravaggio's Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (1597) is the only known ceiling work painted by the Baroque artist. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A luxurious Italian estate featuring the only ceiling ...

The critical rap against Neapolitan Baroque painter Luca Giordano has always been that he was an artistic magpie. Extraordinarily prolific, the widely traveled 17th century painter borrowed from ...

Every once in a while, a city gets exactly the museum it needs. Bilbao used its Guggenheim to complete a post-industrial transformation. The Museum of Modern Art boosted New York’s 20th-century ...