Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

The Arts Society Isle of Wight has announced the last lecture of its season. On June 3, at 2pm, Northwood House, Cowes, will ...

When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio. He’s the blockbuster artist ...

Central Park is full of amazing attractions, but would you believe it's also home to an authentic temple piece from Ancient Egypt?

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

Clearly, the Jewish attitude toward figural art during the late Roman period was ambiguous. Rabban Gamliel was the first head of the Sanhedrin after the destruction of the Temple. For Gamliel ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen ... which are inventories from temples on the island.

The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist ... decoration placed in a temple, would have given the visitor ...

When I was in Rome last summer, I’d visited the birthplace of the Roman Empire, which ... The city, once home to grand temples and palaces, now stands as a patchwork of history. These flourishes of ...

Now that medley of marble has taken its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and settled into the Art Institute of Chicago where ... The exhibition is called “Myth and Marble – Ancient Roman ...