By late in the 17th century, the vaulted loggia ceiling had fallen into disrepair, and included loose areas of “intonaco,” the final, smooth layer of plaster used in frescoed painting.

The mid-17th-century painting, titled 'Confirmation', is a key work from the vast collection of the emirate's Department of ...

Peter Rose follows James out west. Vladimir Putin served his apprenticeship in the KGB toward the end of the Cold War, a period during which Western societies were infiltrated by so-called 'illegals'.

Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to copy paintings of Dutch 'Old Masters', down to their colours and brushes, and he ...

The British School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction.

Henna in Indian painting observes a symbolic as well as celebratory value. Henna or Mehndi is a significant cultural aspect of Indian culture.

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic church in Maryland ... such as researching similar churches and obtaining art that was commonly used in Jesuit churches ...

But the opening of La Fondation, a 58-room hotel with interiors by the New York-based design firm Roman and Williams, might ...

A partnership between the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Italian Embassy in India has brought "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" ...

The ongoing restoration of the 17th-century tomb of Muhammad Qutb Shah in Hyderabad, with its distinctive green, glazed dome and intricate tile work, has thrown open a great opportunity to reintroduce ...

"In essence, what China now declares is that it is prepared to fight to the end: trade war, tariff war, technology war, or real war," Victor Gao of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing ...

For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no ...