A Mamluk footed bowl deaccessioned from the Toledo Museum was the star of this spring's sales of Indian and Islamic art, ...

A family is vying for the return of a painting it thought was by Rubens. But an expert says it’s a copy because it does not ...

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly ...

The earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome ...

In the last few years, some of the most talked-about hotels have been conceived by visionaries with no hospitality experience ...

Works in Galerie Forsblom’s booth at Market Art Fair. Chloe Alyshea, courtesy the gallery and Market Art Fair I’m sitting in a café in the hip, alternative Södermalm neighborhood of Stockholm, which ...

Gustav Klimt's early works in Vienna are now accessible to the public for the first time. The 10 oil paintings on the ...

Want Europe without the flight? Quebec City has cobblestone streets, castle hotels and French cafés just a road trip away.

There are two ways down: the funicular, or the Escalier Casse-Cou, literally translated as the “Breakneck Stairs.” The name is not subtle. The staircase is hundreds of years old and as steep as ...

No European-style city feels complete without a grand cathedral, and Quebec’s is the Our Lady of Québec City cathedral-basilica. A church has stood on this spot since 1647. It’s been destroyed and ...

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French "cravate") back to the... How the word 'cravat' came from the battlefields of 17th ...