The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses ... and the future French king Henry II of France. Catherine was raised in Florence, the epicenter of the growing cult of refined eating ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

An exhibition of precious Italian tapestries, displayed for the first time all together in the United States, has been set up ...