Did you know there's an art form that blends Ancient Greek and Buddhist traditions? Welcome to Greco-Buddhist art, aka ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the passing of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., the generals that succeeded him fought one another for control of the empire he left behind. One of the most brutal episodes of this ...

Ancient Greeks placed great emphasis on healthy skin, and developed many useful and largely natural beauty tips.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is unveiling an ambitious transformation in the George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing for Art of the Ancient World: five reimagined ...

Art collector Dakis Joannou’s DESTE Project Space Slaughterhouse on Hydra is topped with a sculpture by Jeff Koons. Photo by Catherine Panchout/ Sygma via Getty Images For the past many years, the ...

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...

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- ...

These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...