History of Art: Ancient & Classical Art, BCE to c 500 CE

For the first time in 3,300 years, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Papyrus of Ani is showcased in its entirety i...

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. ...

In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the kings mummy,...

Ravenna has eight World Heritages sites--churches, baptisteries, chapels and monuments dating from the fifth and sixth centuries AD which are renow...

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depict...

All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art is a collection of recent conversations and writings by Glasgow based writer and curator Sarah L...

A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century: their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a ...

Ranging from the Egyptians to the late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words celebrates the excitement and importance of historical prim...

A major exploration of one of the most important early artistic cultures of the ancient Americas Considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica, th...

Heroes: Principles of African Greatness is a multi-layered project that relays the stories of the key heroic principles and people in Africas arts ...

A sequel to Ships of the Silk Road, this is an informed and beautifully illustrated treatment of flying men in Chinese jade. Jade figurines depict...