In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories better illustrate the ideal of moral courage than that of ...

Julia Domna can stake a claim to being one of the most influential women of the Roman Empire. Aside from perhaps the ...

The Colosseum was constructed in a flat area between the Caelian, Esquiline, and Palatine Hills under the rule of Emperor Vespasian around 70 AD ... Thousands of wild animals were killed. Foto de Fine ...

What really makes this death distinctive, though, is the sense of humour Vespasian showed as the end neared ... In this version, though, the fumes come from freshly applied paint on the walls of his ...

A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific ...

Glenn Spellman, a New York appraiser, treasure hunter, and art dealer, thought he had found something special last fall when he came across an abstract painting signed E.H. on the website for the ...

Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, “Hope,” Francis spoke of his admiration for the Baroque painter Caravaggio. He recalled that ...

Diego Rivera was one of 20th Century art's towering figures—the Mexican icon who brought mural art onto the world's biggest stages. On the surface, these facts would seem to be unrelated—but ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

The export bar, which allows time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the painting, will expire on 8 August. The work is otherwise at risk of leaving the UK, unless a domestic buyer can be ...

A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie’s New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist.

May 15 (UPI) --A historic painting that formerly was displayed at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., will be on display once again. "We are moving Jesus out of the basement," U ...