When you think of Frederic Leighton, eminent Victorian, president of the Royal Academy, painter of that staple of the gift card market, Flaming June, it’s probably classical figure paintings ...

Taking center stage is a forgotten figure from the classical world ... “The Odyssey” and his image figures prominently on vase paintings. His death was recounted in the “Aethiopis ...

ideal male beauty in classical sculpture generally depicts penises of average or less than average size. Social attitudes have radically transformed how we idealize the male figure, ushering in a ...

Suspended in mid-stride on the vessel's cylindrical surface, the figure's unforgettable flex ... side-by-side with the paintings, drawings and sculptures whose contours they echo.

“We had a clear vision that we wanted to present our Greek vases as paintings and drawings, not as vessels,” Tyndall says. “They are the origins of drawing.” The people on black-figure ...