Conservators will spend the next five years cleaning and retouching the Renaissance frescoes, which date back to the early ...

Dea Picture Library / Some of the best-preserved paintings from Italy’s ancient Etruscan civilization have been put on ...

Archaeologists working inside a buried bedroom at Pompeii have uncovered frescoes depicting a peahen and theatrical masks, ...

"The excitement was enormous... the screams, the hugs, us, the workers, finding something like this doesn't happen every day.

The Francois Tomb fresco cycle, now on show at Rome's National Etruscan Museum, is the state's third major acquisition in two months ...

One of the most celebrated works of Etruscan painting is now on permanent display at National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia ...

By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 30 (Reuters) - One of the most important surviving pieces of ancient Etruscan artwork went on ...

The US Capitol building in Washington, DC, is adorned with multiple lavish murals created in the 19th century by Italian artist Constantino Brumidi. These include panels in the Senate first-floor ...

Worshippers and art lovers crowded into a small chapel Saturday to get a final glimpse of two 700-year-old Byzantine frescoes set to return to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus later this month. The ...

Right now, in the center of Manhattan, anyone can enter a veritable portal to the ancient world. Thirty-five frescoes transported from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples have arrived at New ...

In medieval Europe, before the rise of oil paintings, fresco was a popular religious painting technique. Many artworks across Europe, hundreds of years old, utilize this method and constitute an ...