Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Guercino’s Friar with A Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter, and Art Dealer Presents New Insights into Seventeenth-Century Art World. Immortalized to history by Guercino’s portrait, the ...

Italy has spent €30 million on a rare Caravaggio painting of a young man who went onto become Pope Urban VIII in a move to protect and strengthen its national cultural heritage and make art more ...

At the Nevada Museum of Art, in one room of its current "Italian Baroque" paintings exhibit, the Dandini clan is holding a family reunion of sorts. There are the patriarchs, brothers Vincenzo and ...

As part of ABC Classic's Weekend in Italy, spend three hours with some of the most stunning music from 17th and 18-century Italy. From baroque Venice and the music of Vivaldi, Strozzi, Monteverdi and ...

There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, ...