The Umayyad desert castles are often described as mere stopovers or hunting lodges, but Quseir ‘Amra is something far more profound. It is a physical manifestation of the imagination of Caliph ...

Stately portraits, raucous frescoes, delicate jewelry, and intricate mosaics—all these treasures and more fill the galleries of Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan. The new special ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hand stencil was likely created by a population that is closely linked to the ancestors of Indigenous Australians. The cave ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century A.D., acquired a head by the great baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fusion of old ...

In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles’ teacher Gorgias ...

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Robin Reames is a professor of rhetoric who teaches in the English department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Below, Robin shares five key insights from her new book, The Ancient Art of ...