Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.

The exhibition has opened in Athens, highlighting the golden luxury of Byzantium, which served as an inspiration for Italian ...

The paintings on this list of the top 10 most iconic paintings were chosen for their artistry, historical significance, and ...

The Bode Museum on Museum Island is home to the sculpture collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art, over 100 works from the Picture Gallery and a large part of the coin collection. The Bode Museum ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

Hidden details emerge from a medieval manuscript masquerading as a book cover A business owner tested if customers would pay more for American-made. The results were 'sobering.' Brendan Fraser ...

and fashion/art.’” The second image is a portrait of Ignatius Sancho (b.1729, d. 1780) by Allan Ramsay; the third is of singer Prince; and the fourth features Christiaan van Molhoop ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

This results in many of history’s famous artists having synesthesia – let’s take a look at just a few. Vladimir Nabokov is a famous writer of literary works. He wrote novels, poems ...

It is the latest in a wave of increasingly popular immersive art shows, which fill gallery walls with large-scale projected visuals. The show launches in Salford on Friday before going on a UK tour.