As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully demonstrated, these artists helped redefine Western painting for centuries to come. None of these Sienese artists survived the Black Death.

More than a century and a half later, Temple Emanu ... in a mix of old and new architectural styles, its basilica shape and arched Romanesque windows opening into an Art Deco–style lobby ...

IN THE palatial rooms of the Metropolitan Museum. New York is celebrating the works of art that have burst from its veins in the past 30 years. Displacing the European collection from its usual ...

Key items to see: The New York Kouros (600-590 BC), an imposing statue of a young man in white marble, and the red-figure bowl by Euphronios (c. 515 BC), depicting heroic battle scenes. The Temple ...