The room’s black walls where the frescoes were found had been coated in black paint to avoid oil lamps being visible ... Style,” they said. Another painting on the dining room walls shows ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Over the following centuries, it traveled to Rome and Egypt and was ... After tempera and oil paint took over the art market, encaustic painting became obscure and almost went extinct.

Unlike his typical street art, this addition to his Crude Oil series was a work based on the iconic 1992 painting ‘The Singing Butler’ by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano. Vettriano’s original ...