In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright’s midcentury ... and freshness. In the 1550s, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral to commemorate the capture of Kazan ...

Most of them are in ruins and are accompanied by myths and popular beliefs, which link them to horrible stories of people who ...

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of Medjugorje, Ivan Dragicevic ... Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned ...

From the moment it was acquired under murky circumstances in 17th-century India, the Hope Diamond has often been linked to terrible luck ... Prince Ivan Kanitovski, who had it after Colet ...

The cathedral, built in 1555 under the orders of Tsar Ivan the Terrible ... filled with treasures and priceless art collections named the Hermitage Museum. The Winter Palace has not served as a ...

We all know Ivan IV’s sobriquet, but the story is more complicated than it might seem Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last ...

A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died ORLANDO ...

"Our thoughts are with his family at this time of loss.” De Groft became executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021 following art museum administration jobs in Jacksonville ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into ...