From the bell tower of Leuven’s university library you get a great view across the mottled rooftops of my favourite Flemish ...

There are a million reasons to go to Italy, so why do visitors always go to the same few places? Here are our favourite ways ...

Given how steeped Milan is in history and iconography, it’s tempting to treat the place with a little too much reverence and ...

Beneath them, a remarkable network of bridges and road tunnels has linked the seven most populous islands since the 1970s.

These coastal day-trip delights are easily reachable from London and offer beautiful beaches, fish and chips and lovely places to stay ...

Population at last count: 38 or 40, depending on who you ask ... people began to look inwards. Faroese culture entered a renaissance, in knitting, in food, and in music. Like many indigenous languages ...

The real thesis of the book is an argument that everyone who approaches the past or the present of art without looking to ...

The troubling questions plaguing the British artist who says he's about to end his life... while charging followers £130 each to enjoy a series of 'Last Suppers' with him.

'The Chosen' creator Dallas Jenkins on the Season 5 finale — Jesus' Last Supper and the Season 6 crucifixion, Judas' conflict and Judas' kiss.

We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, ...

Renaissance artists learned, for example, of the Colossus of Rhodes from the first-century a.d. Roman author Pliny the Elder.