If we have to live in a time of overbearing nationalism, it’s a definite bonus when your national identity looks this good.

The films of the underecognized Italian director Paolo Sorrentino are each as entrancing as they are wonderful looks into the ...

Commemoration of William Christie’s eighth decade began last year with grand stagings in Paris of Charpentier’s ‘Médée’ and ...

February 12, 2025 • Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

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But having a homogenised sound wasn’t always a bad thing for rock and roll artists. Even though The Beatles helped ... And then there was that extraordinary baroque voice.” Then again, Bono was ...

Cecilia Sala found herself in the middle of Iran’s hostage diplomacy. Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, in Rome this month after being released from a prison in ...

Credit: Cimabue, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 One of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in European history is the significant impact of Byzantine art on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution ...

What is now Flanders in Belgium was a sprawling hub for Renaissance and Baroque art from the 15th-17th centuries. Flemish artists drew from Gothic inspiration rather than classical Greek and Roman ...