Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

The once-lost 16th-century painting now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian ...

The 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child" by Italian painter Antonio Solari that was stolen more than 50 years ago and it is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England ...

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

LONDON (AP) — A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found — and is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum.

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors ...