Invited by the French king Francois I to live in a small castle next to the Royal Chateau D'Amboise, Da Vinci spent the last three years of his life feted in grand style. Italian artist ...

The Borghese family’s collection is “among the most important in the history of Italian art,” Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, the head of the circulation department of the directorate ...

Nineteenth-century French artist Jacques François Swebach Desfontaines is primarily known for his miniature scale paintings of horses and soldiers. From 1791-1823 his larger works were exhibited at ...

and Italian fashion houses ... which includes over 3,000 works of art. Along with his circle of high-profile artists, Pinault is close friends with former French president Jacques Chirac.

It's been a 20-year-long project, but the billionaire's enduring ambition has finally come to fruition The opening of the art museum of luxury goods billionaire Francois Pinault was always going ...