Raphael

The Uffizi museum in Florence said on Oct. 10 it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorized use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.

Painted by Sandro Botticelli in the mid-1480s, it shows the nude goddess Venus standing on a giant scallop shell, covering her loins with her long blonde hair.

Want to "own" a Leonardo da Vinci or Amedeo Modigliani? One London gallery is showing digitally re-rendered versions of priceless Italian masterpieces although they still don't come cheap.

Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu, his wife, son and other five friends died on Sunday when their plane crashed near Milan, Italy, and burst into flames. The Pilatus PC-12 was being flown by Petrescu himself as the aircraft's owner.

On March 26, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of St. Archangel Gabriel.

An exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael will reopen on June 2 in Rome and its run extended until Aug. 30, after it fell foul of the COVID-19 lockdown.