While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., archaeologists recently uncovered drawings of an intense gladiator battle on a ...

Today German art is rising out of its ruins, and bringing with it new appreciation of the fact that Germany played a major role in developing what is now the dominant artistic mood: expressionism.

Excavations in Italy have unearthed stick figure drawings in the ruins of Pompeii depicting gladiators and animal hunts believed to have been drawn by children before Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

The ruins of Rome have served as a Rorschach test for centuries, with spectators projecting onto them their hopes, fears, or even disappointments. As early as 1411 the Greek scholar Manuel ...

Art: Ruins as Monuments. 1 minute read. TIME. March 20, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4. T he Architectural Review, Britain’s No. 1 architectural magazine, recently declared that the ruins of Britain’s ...

Rohl first encountered de Vries and the ruins while a student at another university back in the early 2000s. He remembers telling his wife he wanted to dig at Umm Al-Jimal someday. He remembers being ...

In 1987, the late great art critic Robert Hughes called Kiefer “the best painter of his generation on either side of the Atlantic”. His interests weren’t confined to German history.

Tamara Cedré: To Rise Above Ruins runs through Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Riverside Art Museum in its Julia Morgan Building, a deeply personal exhibition inspired by the poetry of Derek Walcott ...

Meltzer traced Western civilization’s uncanny fascination with ruins in art and literature across millennia, from the worries of Thucydides that future historians would misjudge the relative powers of ...