the ancient Greek god of wine, against walls and columns painted in Pompeiian red. All the figures in the frieze are shown on pedestals, and a second row of images above the human figures shows ...

And it was thus as much a temple to Athens and the Athenians as it was to their patron goddess, Athena herself ... it remains one of the principal legacies of Greek civilization to western ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting ...

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of identity ...

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures, has been ...