The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games has landed in Rome following a handover in Greece.

Italian cultural officials are offering digital copies of Italian masterpieces as part of a new project to help museums raise money.

Frida Kahlo’s painting “El sueño (La cama)” is expected to fetch between $40 million and $60 million at auction, potentially making it the most expensive work by a female or Latin American artist.

Days after eight pieces of the French crown jewels were stolen from the Louvre, a former bank robber who once toured the now-infamous Apollo Gallery for a Louvre podcast says he warned a museum official of weaknesses in security.

A week after thieves stormed the Louvre and ripped eight priceless pieces from France’s crown jewels, the country is nursing a deep cultural wound — even as Paris authorities on Sunday announced arrests tied to the haul.

Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum.

Britain’s National Gallery has announced it will use almost half a billion dollars in donations to open a new wing that will allow it to expand its collection into modern art.

A laundry-stealing cat with expensive taste has puzzled and delighted a neighborhood in Auckland, New Zealand, by committing an unstoppable wave of burglaries from clotheslines and even bedrooms.

The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the paintings.

The trial of seven people charged in connection with alleged cyberbullying targeting the artistic director of last summer’s Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies has started in a Paris court.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre.

The “Mona Lisa” has given up a secret.

An Italian scholar has provided fresh fodder for an old debate over the identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother.

The European Union's highest court says travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic may be entitled to at least a partial refund.

Several hundred flights were canceled in Italy on a peak vacation travel day because of a four-hour strikes involving low-cost airlines and air traffic controllers.

Climate change protesters have targeted a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.

A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to “Think of the Earth.”.

To get their Afghan workers and their families into Kabul's chaotic airport for evacuation, Western charities are inventing simple, one-off passwords.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa hangs on the wall in a deserted Louvre museum, in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. The 518-year-old Mona Lisa will have seen many things in her life on display, but rarely this: Almost four months with no visitors. She stares out in Paris' Louvre, across bulletproof glass into the now-silent emptiness of the shuttered Salle des Etats. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – The 518-year-old Mona Lisa has seen many things in her life on a wall, but rarely this: Almost four months with no Louvre visitors. It’s uncertain when the Paris museum will reopen, after being closed on Oct. 30 in line with the French government’s virus containment measures.

'Last Supper' reopened Tuesday to the public after closure due to COVID-19 lockdown measures. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)MILAN – COVID-19 restrictions have brought a novelty to art lovers: The possibility of seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” without waiting in line, and with same-day tickets possible. Access is restricted in the first week to just eight viewers every 15 minutes, going up to 12 starting next week. Ad“The dramatic COVID emergency had the effect of lowering the legendary wait time, and for the public this is a real opportunity,” Daffra said. “I feel it's an experience of new beginnings,'' said Roberto Ponti, who finally got to see the “Last Supper" after months of delay.

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)ROME Cruise ship passengers were having their temperatures checked and taking COVID-19 tests Sunday so they could set sail on what is being billed as the first Mediterranean cruise after Italy's pandemic lockdown. The cruise ship company MSC has made the procedures, for crew as well as passengers, part of its new health and safety protocols. Earlier this month, the Italian government gave its approval for cruise ships to once again depart from Italys ports. But cruise ships are being limited to 70% capacity. An estimated 12 million cruise ship passengers arrived or departed from Italian ports last year or made port calls in Italy during their trip, according to industry figures.

Visitors take photos of the Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, in Paris, Monday, July 6, 2020. The home of the world's most famous portrait, the Louvre Museum in Paris, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus lockdown. Paris' Louvre Museum, which houses the world's most famous portrait, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus lockdown and without its usual huge throngs. The bulk of the Louvre's visitors before the pandemic used to come from overseas, led by travelers from the United States. The Louvre is hoping to instead attract visitors from closer to home, including the Paris region, but is bracing for a plunge in numbers.