Tuscany is quintessential Italy. It's rolling hills, cypress-lined roads, picturesque Mediterranean coastline, and vineyards that stretch to the horizon. It's where travelers come to take those ...

Tuscany’s idyllic scenery suggests to the modern visitor a simple life of refinement and repose, far removed from the vulgar intrusions of urban existence. As writer Jack Smith observes in this ...

Everyone should draw, says the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay, our teacher for the week's painting course: 'It makes people look. Drawing's about looking; it's not about expressing yourself.' I'm hoping ...