Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable of ...

An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable to depict human ...

Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum. The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an ...

MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian anthropologists expect to have a definite result in their investigation into Baroque artist Caravaggio's death in May, hopefully unveiling a centuries old mystery. Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage has been working since last year to find out what caused the painter's death in 1610 and the whereabouts of his corpse. Working with ...