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Amid doomsaying on AI, Leo XIV looks before – and beyond – regulation

art history

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

Jul 14, 2019
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Experts confident that Cathedral of Notre Dame will rise again

Apr 19, 2019
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