Pompeii, a name synonymous with a moment frozen in time, continues to yield incredible secrets, two thousand years after ...

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of ...

View Clement Haupers Dionysus Oil Painting (1920s) By Clement Bernard‏ Haupers; Oil on board painting; height: 35 3/4 in x width: 53 3/4 in. height: 38 1/2 in x width: 56 1/2 in x depth: 1 in.; Signed ...

These frescoes, made by painting over thick, wet layers of mortar, were organized into four styles: First Style (Incrustation), Second Style (Architectural), Third Style (Ornamental), and ... The ...

The painting is stiff, clumsy, utterly lacking the feverish impasto and rhythmic brushwork that define the Dutch artist’s oeuvre. Worse still, it bore a signature: Elimar.

To say there’s a lot of wine flowing across the nearly life-size fresco recently discovered in Italy’s ash-buried Pompeii would be an understatement. And it should come as no shock that the ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., the enormous explosion buried the city of Pompeii in an astonishing 19 meters of ash and debris. (A recent study concludes that in the neighboring town of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The painting shows Dionysus with female followers dancing around him, carrying slaughtered goats and brandishing swords. It has since come to light that it is a rather manic ritual being projected ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried ...