Climate activist attacks on works by van Gogh, Vermeer, and other art world titans are the latest in a tradition of destruction that hearkens to the early Christian zealots.

Renaissance painters incorporated the inherent qualities of stone to produce works of art that revealed the beauty of nature and hand of God.

Drawing on traditions of monastic power, Modi’s party is trying to promote the image of India as a vishwaguru, or teacher to the world.

Rumor had it that these machines were once the Prince’s servants, whom he murdered and transformed into anatomical displays. Scholars showed otherwise.

The British aristocrat Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill was said to be evidence of his "degeneracy."

Eighteenth-century Italian noblewomen had one indispensable accessory: an extramarital lover.

The miniature paintings celebrated and commemorated love at a time when public expressions of affection were uncouth.

The original inspiration for the now-ubiquitous equestrian statue, a classical bronze of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was almost melted down and lost forever.

The most lavish among them were festooned with colorful appliqué and brightened with gilded leather.

Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and transform it into something more wondrous, more terrifying.