A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power ...

(Weddell was an avid collector of antiquities, including the so-called Jenkins Venus.) The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes that the statue is ... of ancient and modern fragments”, she ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

For all its transformations over the decades, Pistoletto’s work has maintained its focus on the fundamental dialectic ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a "new renaissance" for the Louvre on Tuesday, including a multi-million-euro ...

and was rewarded by the grateful monarch with a statue at Delphi. Queen Pheretime, a sixth-century B.C. ruler from Cyrene (in modern-day Libya) took revenge on her son’s killers by having them ...

From scenic drives through the countryside and sunbathing on the beach to fresh seafood and towns rich with history, the Constitution State has much to offer travelers. The word "Connecticut" ...

It houses some of the most famous works of the time, including Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," which hangs ... fond of Michelangelo's iconic sculpture, "David," which today is found in ...

"This is your water from Venus," he says. Above ambient space ... areas are restrained—not counting the occasional character sculpture or delightful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle walking around.

That’s Singletary Lake State Park in a nutshell. Nestled in the heart of North Carolina, Singletary Lake State Park is the ...