One legendary passage—hinted at in plans by Leonardo da Vinci—was used by a duke to secretly visit the tomb of his beloved ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the northern Italian city of Biella, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto lives in his grandest idea ...

As you reach the end of the temple, you’ll encounter a large chamber with a demon’s head carved in stone as its centerpiece known as the Demon’s Tomb. In true Indy style, the room is a tough ...

Madonna and Child: A monument by Michelangelo looted from the Church of Notre Dame in 1944. Claude Monet's Bord de Mer: A pastel looted from a Jewish couple in World War II and returned to the ...

Last year marked the 20th anniversary of Lara Croft's grittiest adventure to date: Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness. Wrongly accused of her mentor's brutal murder in Paris, the sixth series ...

The finished tapestries, which were delivered to the Vatican in 1520, cost five times as much as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and they inspired Bernard van Orley, working in Brussels ...

The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo's statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson. The school's principal quit ...