In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed ... and the marble Dying Gaul and Capitoline Venus. And while the Temple of Jupiter was razed by looters in the fifth and sixth centuries ...

The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed ...

The work lays bare connections across history and mythology between women and monstrosity ... depicts an Indian Devata perched atop a Greco-Roman Venus, the two women entwined in a sensual embrace.

Heroine of Art,” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...

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