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 — ...

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 ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did they end?

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- ...

During the 15 months that it took to reinstall the collection of ancient art at the Getty Villa, roughly half the galleries remained open at any given time. Bits and pieces of the ongoing ...