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This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, shows the oil-on-canvas painting “Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini” by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (16th century). (Credit: Alessio Panunzi and Alberto Novelli/Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Ministero della Cultura via AP.)

Italy buys Caravaggio painting of future Pope for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

Mar 12
Giada Zampano

Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’

Mar 1
Nicole Winfield

Auction officer Jean-Pierre Osenat gestures as the long-lost painting “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction for 2,3 million euros or $2.66 million in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

Dec 1, 2025
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Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure

Feb 20, 2022
Carol Glatz

Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time

Jan 30, 2022
Dennis Sadowski

Restorers uncover new details in a Michelangelo Pieta

Sep 16, 2020
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Mystery novel lets young adults explore corner of Rome during lockdown

May 25, 2020
Charles Collins

Virus doesn’t sway Italians from swarming to Raphael exhibit

Mar 6, 2020
Elise Ann Allen

Rare exhibit of Jesuit artists’ work in China displayed in Washington

Jul 14, 2019
Rhina Guidos

Experts confident that Cathedral of Notre Dame will rise again

Apr 19, 2019
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