EditorialItaly: Medusa as the shield of Athena. Oil on canvas painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610), c. 1597
EditorialEngland: Queen Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603), represented in the 'Phoenix' portrait. Oil on panel painting attributed to Nicholas Hilliard, (c. 1547 - 7 January 1619) c. 1575
EditorialPalestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with prisoners in Israeli jails outside Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestinian Territory - 17 Oct 2022
EditorialItaly: Two of four giant telamones depicting the Moors defeated by Charles V in the 1535 conquest of Tunis, Porta Nuova (New Gate). The gate was originally built in the 15th century and rebuilt in 1584, but subsequently destroyed by fire in 1667 and rebui
EditorialItaly: Porta Nuova (New Gate), originally built in the 15th century and rebuilt in 1584, but subsequently destroyed by fire in 1667 and rebuilt again in 1669, Palermo, Sicily
EditorialLeft to right, Velázquez, “The Supper at Emmaus” (1622–23), and Caravaggio, “The Denial of Saint Peter” (1610) are in Gallery 601 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Dec. 21, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)