Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable of ...

An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable to depict human ...

A Picasso painting belonging to British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will be sold at auction, Christie's said Wednesday, four years after it was pulled from sale over alleged Nazi links. Lloyd Webber -- composer of musicals like "Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats" -- originally announced his intention to sell "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)" for charity ...