When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...

The game leans into Greek legend, peppering the world with ruins that whisper of gods and monsters ... and a big part of that ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

Scholars of the Renaissance, including the Greek academic Demetrios Chalkondyles (pictured far right). Credit: Domenico Ghirlandaio / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Between the 14th and 15th ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Miller’s Monster Diaries retells Greek myths, but from the monsters’ perspective. The first book, launching in paperback in April 2026, centres on Polyphemus and the Cyclops’ own version of ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...