ROME (Reuters Life!) - How did ancient Roman nobles relax when they returned to their homes at night after a hard day's politicking at the Senate or the Forum? In part by looking at the frescos on the ...

Frescoes in the Roman Villa of the Mysteries, which was restored and reopened to the public in the archaeological site of Pompeii, in Italy, on March 20, 2015. In their ongoing work in Pompeii, ...

The Roman villa known for being home to Caravaggio’s only known ceiling painting—which is at the heart of an inheritance battle among one of Italy’s oldest noble families—failed to sell for the third ...

A still-life fresco recently discovered in the ruins of ancient Pompeii was at first believed to depict a pizza, but archeologists say it is not the iconic Italian dish after all. The fresco was ...

Architecture and illusionistic painting in the Roman house / Donatella Mazzoleni -- The domus Romana : pictorial decorations and cultural values / Umberto Pappalardo -- Catalogue of sites. The House ...

ROME, June 27 (Reuters) - A fresco that depicts what might be an ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found on the wall of an house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's Culture Ministry ...

One of the finest and most luxurious hotels in Italy happens to be in a renovated post office in Sicily overlooking the ...

But where was Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, Boadicea or Boudecia) buried? Over the years, several locations were said to ...

Read the story behind the opulent 1888 masterpiece by Anglo-Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) Collection of Pérez Simón, Mexico.

The starting bid on a Roman villa with the world’s only Caravaggio ceiling painting, which was expected to fetch $533 million at auction, has been slashed after the property failed to sell Tuesday. A ...