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.

Art: Inspiring Ruins. 3 minute read. TIME. August 25, 1947 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... “I trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the ruins of war, the flowerings of art. A delicate painting of a gymnast doing a handstand has popped up on the wall of a wrecked building outside of Kyiv and ...