By looking at archaeology, art, architecture, literature ... the physician Hippocrates, and philosopher Socrates. It also gave rise to political reforms that are ancient Greece’s most enduring ...

It’s not just how you ask a question but also the circumstance in which you ask it. As a college senior, I wanted to be Socrates and approached people at the Art Institute, which to me was the Chicago ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...

March is Hong Kong’s annual art month, featuring cultural experiences such as big art fairs, special exhibitions and film screenings – to name a few. Inspired by the creative season ...

Zeno of Citium, influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, developed Stoic philosophy to cultivate virtue and achieve tranquillity in an unpredictable world. The Stoics believed that true happiness ...

(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...

An oil painting on canvas believed to have been created by artist Vincent van Gogh, which was purchased at a garage sale for $50 and later valued at $15 million, may be a fake, according to a new ...

Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector. The work by Henry Gibbs, titled Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken from ...

This from a man who had just fired thousands from their government jobs. The painting in question copies the composition of Washington Crossing the Delaware, that heroic scene created by German ...