Rene Magritte’s painting "L’empire des lumières" fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s New York, a new record for the Belgian ...

Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might ...

Two youthful masterpieces by Baroque great Gian Lorenzo Bernini are on show at the Vatican Museums after leaving their previous hard-to-visit seat at the Spanish embassy to the Holy See. The works, ...

A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s auction.

Newport Police reported the arrest of a Charleston man wanted for the theft of a vehicle in Newport City. Harold Nadeau Jr., ...

Italian officials said they had dismantled a Europe-wide network of forgers and dealers selling works purported to be by ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives ... (The monasteries retain considerable autonomy from the Vatican in how they manage their land.) So Dalla Ragione began visiting the still-active ...

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican revealed its new mascot for Holy Year 2025, Luce, inspired by pop culture, specifically anime. The Pro-prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization ...

Restoration work on the baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – When news recently made the rounds that Pope Francis was once again cutting the pay of ...

VATICAN CITY - A Vatican tribunal on Wednesday defended its 2023 decision to convict a senior Catholic cardinal of misappropriation of funds, saying the prelate was "aware of all the steps" in a ...

In the lead-up to the Holy Year 2025, the Vatican inaugurated the "Official Area" for St ... a multilingual staff that can answer their questions. Any profits from the sale of goods from the info ...