SUPER GODS: Artist Meshes Comic Book Superheroes With Ancient Mythology
Some new gods for you to worship...
The Met Museum Just Made 375,000 Images Open Access--But Here Are A Few More Museums That Are #OA
On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art moved to make all of their public-domain images of artwork— around 375,000—free for...
Waking the gods: how the classical world cast its spell over British art
Dod Procter’s painting of a girl on the brink of waking echoes an ancient statue of Ariadne – and is...
Artists ask: what did the ancient Greeks do for us?
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
Beauty Takes a Victory Lap in This Masterpiece
In the Charioteer of Delphi, one of few bronze Greek statues that have survived, a youthful champion exudes thoughtfulness.
The Antiquities Men
Willard Spiegelman reviews “Possession : The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present” by Erin L. Thompson....
Horrible Art Histories – the grotesque in art
In the April 2015 issue of Apollo, Tim Smith-Laing considers how the genre of the grotesque has unfolded from the...
What every man needs now: a six-pack from ancient Greece | Natalie Haynes
Women have always faced impossible physical expectations. Now there is pressure on men to muscle up like Hercules
Archaeologists Have Found the Oldest Roman Temple
Most classical archaeologists would count themselves lucky to add a shard of terracotta to a museum's storage boxes—so when a...
Reassessing Artworks of Ancient Rome
Painting was more prized than sculpture by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and easel paintings more than frescoes, which were...