Art history

If confirmed, it would be only the eighth artwork signed by the Italian Renaissance sculptor discovered worldwide

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence

These three categories are the top investments of passion here, a recent report shows

How long could you maintain your most withering glare? A minute? An hour?

THE Arrigoni bakery has made bread for the popes for almost a century, from rosetta rolls to wholewheat loaves – but mass tourism has proved deadly and no prayers can save it now.

ROME’S 2,000-year-old Pantheon started charging for entrance on Monday (Jul 3), with tourists paying 5 euros (S$7.37) to see Italy’s most visited cultural site.

ARMED with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment.

NORWAY’S wealth fund has placed an Indonesian state-controlled cement maker, in which it has a stake, under observation for three years for what it calls “risk of damage” from the firm’s activities to...

GREECE said it has recovered hundreds of looted Neolithic to Byzantine artefacts including a second century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-...