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, ...

Researchers working on the Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis, a seaside estate near modern Torre Annunziata that was buried by the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Amid the remains of a sumptuous villa near Pompeii, the hard-hatted conservationist scraped away centuries-old ash to reveal a vibrant red fresco. For the first time on Thursday, visitors were allowed ...

Giotto's Santa Croce frescoes are receiving the final touches of a four-year restoration in Florence, with scaffolding poised to be removed ahead of an official reveal in September. Stefano Filipponi, ...

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 1933, German photographer Hedda Morrison went to a western suburb of Beijing, where she discovered what she would call the city's most interesting temple. With a Rolleiflex twin lens camera and a ...