Rome: first century AD, the republic is gone and with it the people’s influence in who governs them. Lavish gladiatorial ...

Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

Manning describes her practice in terms of ritual—a channeling process through which something universal, intangible and ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is still over a year out, but in the meantime check out Ralph Fiennes’ turn as Odysseus.

This period, often referred to as the “Golden Age of Athens,” saw the city become a center of art, philosophy, and democracy. Under the leadership of statesmen like Pericles, Athens developed a form ...