Art History

This study is the evaluation of more than 1000 stelae dating to the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (1800 to 1550 BC). The stela...

Once the pride of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped ...

A medical practitioner and talented draftsman, Alessandro Ricci was born in Siena, Italy, at the end of the eighteenth century. He traveled extensi...

Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage,...

In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and ...

Hard to believe but true: The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers Synago...

The painted ivories of Norman Sicily count among the most original creations known from medieval Palermo. These small, lavishly decorated objects r...

Herculaneum, located on the picturesque Bay of Naples, was buried in the same volcanic eruption as its larger neighbour, Pompeii. But while Pompeii...

Located at the intersection of trade routes from central Africa, the ancient Near East, and the Classical world, ancient Nubia ruled the entire Nil...

In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern I...

As a sequel to the analysis of Romanesque church architecture as the Heavenly Jerusalem on earth, this book reviews the embellishing cloister arts ...

  Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Candace Fleming presents the edge-of-your-seat true story of the search for Tut...

A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman EgyptThe art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks, notably within the royal court...

Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in popula...

A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative ...

For centuries, we have been fascinated with the iconic architecture, mystical religious beliefs, and once-thriving societies of the ancient Egyptia...

Exhibiting the mastery of the gem-engraver from prehistory to the present, Masterpieces in Miniature offers a survey of the finest products of the ...

Memory studies -- one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day -- brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, hi...

While Celtic art includes some of the most famous archaeological artefacts in the British Isles, such as the Battersea shield or the gold torcs fro...

Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classici...

The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed ...

This is an introductory guide to the history of Greek art: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Founded over 50-years ago, REA is dedicated to prod...

For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an intern...

The whalebone box known as the Franks Casket has intrigued and puzzled viewers since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century. Made in northern En...

In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. T...

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long...

References to the past play a significant role on many levels in both modern and ancient societies. What societies choose to remember and how they ...