When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

Surviving images on ancient works of art frequently depict the symposium, where ancient Greeks reclined on one side to eat and drink.

The two-day series of sales begins with Fine Ancient Jewellery & Beads, opening with the first hammer strike on 11 April at 1 ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles’ teacher Gorgias ...

Sgraffito*, an ancient technique of scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of contrasting color, is making a comeback in modern African home decor ...

Nobody knows exactly how old Whang-od is, but locals say she is over 100. As the last true tattoo artist in the Philippines, ...