an art historian spotting a missing painting on his social media feed, and an amateur excavator digging up a confounding ancient Roman object. The experts made plenty of headlines, too ...

According to French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research art historian ... common to many Roman wall paintings. Only the most prominent families of the ancient city could ...

From March 15, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” at the Art Institute of Chicago will array the vast collection amassed by the storied (and secretive ...

Encaustic painting is an ancient technique of mixing hot ... we name Greek, Roman, and Byzantine examples of art, painting with molten wax was familiar and popular in non-European cultures as ...

As to why the sculpture is known as Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian—Manchester tells The Art Newspaper that it was, in fact, originally called Minerva.