What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...

This book presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid — ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

In 1903 Auguste Rodin said, “The most interesting thing about London is the number of its antiquities. In my spare time I simply haunt the British Museum.” It was an uncharacteristically understated ...

If you ask today’s average American to name an image of a horse in ancient Greek culture, a likely response could be the Trojan Horse, the flying stallion Pegasus or the equestrian parade from the ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...