Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists ... to emerge at the renowned archeological site. The works of ...

While frescoes did not reach their height of popularity until the High Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art was practiced long before. The first frescoes were ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

A recently excavated Roman fresco from a house dating to the end ... National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research art historian Julien Boislève, this combination is previously unknown ...

The newly-uncovered fresco was found on a half-crumbled wall in what was the hallway of a house in Pompeii Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which ...

The ruins of a Roman city were recently unearthed in the French countryside, shedding light on the region’s ancient, imperial ...

The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as ...

Pietro Fabris (Italian, active 1756–1779), View of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Sunday night August the 8th 1779, ...

To some people art history can seem intimidating and complex, riddled with hundreds of specific terms and ideas.

There are many things to love about fall. Perhaps most notably this year, it's the relief from the excruciating heat that ...

The church of Panagia Kera near Agios Nikolaos on Crete contains the finest-preserved Byzantine frescoes on the Greek island ...