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Florence, Italy, attracts millions of visitors each year and is well known for its art – art museums and galleries hou ...

A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

Led by forensic pathologist Andreas G. Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, a team of international experts propose that Michelangelo's fresco "The Flood" in the Sistine Chapel portrays ...

The Los Angeles-based painter Witt Fetter goes on a reinvigorating journey to the Italian island Ponza and immerses in its ...

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This includes a well-preserved fresco toward the back of the house ... and another portraying the Greek story of the Judgment of Paris. In one image, a satyr - a creature half-man, half-goat ...

This one demonstrates changes in the taste and design of Roman homes at the time of the eruption but also exhibits a variety of mythical scenes depicted in frescoes on the walls. Found in the ...

The house is striking for the high level of wall decorations. It has been provisionally named the House of Phaedra after the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a tiny house in Pompeii filled with elaborate and erotic frescoes ... probably represents the Judgment of Paris. A window, next to the small painting with ...

Another may be an illustration of the Judgement of Paris, another Greek myth, although the scene was difficult to decipher because the fresco had been damaged ... Some items from the last offering ...