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A golden thread links the historical and artistic events, the diplomatic balances and the devotion in the Mediterranean area along the route between Venice and Crete.

In September, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford launched a campaign to raise the funds needed to buy The Crucifixion (1420s), a small gold-ground panel by Fra Angelico.

The Biennale is dominating Venice this month, but the rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from a deep dive into the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau鈥檚 genius.

With figures ranging from Apollo to Juno, Christie's Antiquities sale brings together masterworks from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt

Coinciding with this year鈥檚 59th International Art Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia invited Anselm Kiefer to imagine an exhibition responding to the historic Palazzo Ducale.

German artist creates new works that respond to those created by Tintoretto and others.

Anselm Kiefer presents a new body of work in the Sala dello Scrutinio and the Sala della Quarantia Civil Nova at the Palazzo Ducale (Doge鈥檚 Palace) in Venice to coincide with the 59th Venice Biennale.

Luigi Brugnaro's "entrepreneurial" decision violates Venice's historic agreement with Italian state to keep the landmark open to the public

A US dealer says he is owed millions by insurance brokers for 12 works that were confiscated by authorities from the Palazzo Ducale in 2017 as suspected fakes

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure 鈥渧isitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other鈥�

After the reappointment of former culture minister Dario Franceschini, a centrist who ushered in a wave of non-Italian museum directors in 2015, the Italian Culture Ministry is once again opening up the nation鈥檚 top cultural leadership posts to international applicants and...

Belgian collector Marnix Neerman revealed as buyer as exhibition of masterpieces from Flemish collections opens at the Palazzo Ducale this week

On my recent trip to Venice for this year鈥檚 art biennial, I met Dutch/Brazilian designer Joca Van Der Horst.

When a whole city is an exhibit in its own right, the contents of Venice鈥檚 top museums can seem like a glorious form of excess. All housed in venerable palazzi, nowhere showcases art quite like Venice.

Tintoretto was il Furioso. He was a lightning flash or a thunderbolt, a storm in La Serenissima of Renaissance Italy, a maverick and a cheat. One of his friends, a fellow Venetian, likened him to a peppercorn overwhelming ten bunches of poppies.