In Italian baroque painting, for the first time ever in Western art, the Establishment came up with an officially "right" way to paint a picture, then did its best to stifle opposition -- and a ...

ON DISPLAY: ITALIAN BAROQUE PAINTINGS FROM THE HAUKOHL FAMILY COLLECTION. WHERE: Wiegand Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. WHEN: On display through July 6.

A grand Italian mansion that Napoleon used as his headquarters has gone on sale - and it's the same price as a two-bed flat in London. Villa La Voglina was built in the 17th Century by the world ...

On a trip to this thrumming Italian city about 15 years ago, art historian Michael Stoughton hoped to visit a famous Baroque church in the Sanita neighborhood of Naples. An Italian friend said no ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved ...