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Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

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The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

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In his latest column, Gordon Bourgon explores the global tradition of buried art—tracing its symbolic and political meanings ...

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Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in ...