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A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

The oldest known depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ is housed in the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

The Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai is believed to house the oldest icon depicting the ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe.

Between 15 March and 10 August 1943, some forty-three thousand Jews of Thessaloniki were transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Of those, less than one thousand returned. The Director of the ...

Two historic portraits of the naval hero, including one depicting him dying at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, have been taken down. It follows a cross-party review seeking to 'modernise ...

The year 2024was the hottest and driest in Greece with record high temperatures and severe drought conditions with precipitation reduced by 8 to 10% according to scientific data presented on Wednesday ...

Stars stopped by PEOPLE and Audi's portrait studio to get silly with their friends and castmates (and new SAG Awards!) Alex Apatoff is the former Executive Editor of PEOPLE Digital. She has worked ...