Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

From Petrarch onwards, landscapes became a place ... For example, the depiction of the ‘untamed wilderness’ in art and literature can legitimise acts of conquest and ownership.

Petrarch was actually the one to assign the ... Compared to the stylized art of the European Medieval period, which concerned itself more with the content and message of art than mimicking life ...

Includes the literary works of such writers as Petrarch, Pico, Machiavelli, Erasmus and Cervantes, along with the art of Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Cellini, Dufay, da Vinci, and ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...

Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...

A fresh coat of paint can have a bold, immediate impact on the look and feel of any interior space — the challenge is picking the right colour from all the options available, ranging from ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.