Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince, painted when his people were displayed in a “human zoo,” was first dismissed ...

The 70-year mystery surrounding the theft of an original oil sketch by renowned Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck from a ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

Instead, evidence suggests they engaged multiple senses, making the experience of ancient art more immersive ... Pausanias described how the statue of Zeus at Olympia was regularly anointed with olive ...

Entitled "Crude Oil (Vettriano)" and sometimes called "Toxic beach," the painting first revealed by Banksy in 2005 was sold at Sotheby's in London, from the collection of Mark Hoppus, bassist with ...

Around 5% of homes in Great Britain use oil central heating instead of heating their homes with gas or electricity. Oil central heating is much more common for households in Northern Ireland, many of ...

Even as someone who cooks the vast majority of meals at home and goes through a lot of olive oil every week, I find that section of the grocery store overwhelming. Some hail from Greece ...

LONDON—BP BP0.32%increase; green up pointing triangle said it would boost oil-and-gas production and sharply cut investments in clean energy, pivoting back to fossil fuels in a bid to revive its ...

There is a famous fable of Momus and his notorious satirical wit that is illustrated in the painting above, made by Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck, depicting Zeus, Prometheus, Athena and Momus: ...