Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes ...

If you've felt setbacks and mental hurdles in your attempts to meditate every day, two experts gave our science writer a ...

In the hallowed halls of the Sistine Chapel, a subtle and unexpected mystery might be hiding above millions of heads. Experts suggest that Michelangelo, famed for his detailed depictions of the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fourth damaged fresco may portray the Judgement of Paris ... According to Pompeii’s archaeologists, the altar once held a last offering which included burned essences, a fig leaf, and a ...

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