A portrait stored for 35 years by the National Trust has left amazed after being unmasked as an 18th-century painting by one of the most “successful female artists of any era”. ‘The Portrait of a Tyrolese Lady’ had been in the collection
Rivers swollen by days of downpours flooded some towns in northern Italy on Tuesday, forcing some residents to rooftops, while in Venice, authorities were preparing to activate a mobile barrier in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the city from high-tide flooding,