President Theodore Roosevelt was inspired by the artistic merit of ancient coins and sought to change the look of American coinage. In 1905 he asked famous sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create ...

The beloved ancient Greek sculpture called "The Boxer at Rest," from 330-50 BC, is one of the most realistic of all ancient ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

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So clearly it was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status. Modern politicians use political techniques invented by rulers of old, but instead of paint ...

According to legend, the Trojans migrated to Britain after the fall of Troy. A new book investigates the historicity of this ...

Memento moris remind us that death is inevitable, nothing afterward is assured, and what we do in that crack of light between ...

These gods had made their home in the Roman world at an early time, along with Greek art and literature ... seductive goddess who was the mother of Aeneas, the founding hero of Rome according ...

Antonis Bartsiokas's assertions have been met with pushback from Greek archaeologists. In life, Alexander the Great stamped ...

Actaeon In ancient Greek mythology Actaeon was a hunter dismembered by his own dogs. Greek Baby Names, Latin Baby Names Acteon A hunter dismembered by his own dogs. Greek Baby Names ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. By Walker Mimms ...

Featuring a total of 279 artifacts rooted in ancient Greece, the exhibition The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The Greek show in China seems a perfect ...