There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

The Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” is perhaps the most recognizable and widely known symbol of Emperor Nero’s extravagant ambitions; built between 65 and 68 AD after the Gr ...

Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his ...

ALBAWABA - Former US President Donald Trump's son Barron Trump has been taking center attention on social media during the ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

The 'Figures of the Fool' exhibition shows how perceptions of madness have changed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Insights Works of art are often targets for political dissent.  Thankfully, many art attacks can be painstakingly restored.  Some of these attacks are not meant to destroy but for attention.  Also: 2 ...

As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was ...

The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, ...