Here are three elements of Roman mid-winter celebrations that are either reminiscent of or directly responsible for our modern Christmas traditions. Like for many of us, the 25th of December was a ...

Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the Roman city buried in an eruption ... "In the shimmering light, the paintings would have almost come to life," he said.

Rome is to celebrate Caravaggio on the occasion of this year's Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year with the biggest ever show on ...

Students should demonstrate general knowledge of the basic characteristics of style, iconography, function and design in Roman art and architecture from the Republic to the Constantinian period. The ...

Encaustic painting, an age-old art form, combines beeswax, resin and pigment to create luminous, textured artworks. This ...

Richard Spear gathered this set of data in order to write the Rome section of the book Painting for Profit ... During the past few decades, art historians have increasingly recognized the importance ...

The course will survey the developments of Roman art with an emphasis on architecture, sculpture and painting. It will illuminate the development of the urban space in the context of cultural, social ...

A villa in the Italian capital Rome housing the only mural by ... its centre and marked by signs of the zodiac. The artist is said to have painted the gods to look like himself.

paints, cosmetics, and was intentionally ingested as well as being present in air pollution from the mining and smelting of silver and lead ores, that the paper claimed "underpinned the Roman ...