Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...
The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...
The myth of feminine hysteria didn’t start in a Victorian sanatorium. Long before Freud heard about it and thought it sounded ...
After five years, the institution invited the public for a 24-hour marathon celebration to inaugurate its new boxy, ...
Curses in Greek mythology were never just punishments. They were mirrors of human weakness and divine justice, showing how ...
The 1925 Paris Expo established an audacious new design style of architecture, fashion and graphics. In the Watches & ...
An eclectic, high-end sale known as “Connoisseur’s Delight,” the event is led by a highly important Early Cycladic II Spedos Type marble idol of the ancient Greek Keros-Syros Culture, circa 1700-2300 ...
It’s not surprising to see naked women in Classical art. If anything, it’s expected. However, female bodies and nudity are ...
Recently, in the article dedicated to posca, the sour, watered-down wine favored by lower-class Romans, we mentioned that ...
As I left the Lake Placid Film Festival on Sunday, Nov. 2, I looked back at the Palace Theatre, the white marquee, the red lettering advertising the current showings, the glow of overhead lights. I ...
Emmanuel Item has tattooed hundreds of people with designs that draw deeply on his Nigerian heritage, connecting people in ...
Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...