Great Art Explained began in May 2020 with the simple premise that great art can be explained clearly and concisely in 15 ...

Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo ...

​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by Federica Gigante, a historian from the University of Cambridge. It may not ...

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

But art historian Etele Kiss rebutted those claims in a 2000 study, pointing out similarities between the imperial clothing and other Byzantine art, the fact that the Greek errors are largely accents ...

The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter ...

Discovered near Kfar Saba, the ornate coffin fittings may hint at ties to pagan cults -- or a Roman soldier’s final journey ...