Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

Often described as “the most Greek of all the gods,” Apollo was something of a Renaissance man. He entertained Olympus with his lyre, taught humankind the art of medicine, and had no rival in archery.

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

Edward Boccia was an influential American Expressionist in his lifetime. Now, a New York exhibition sheds light on his ...

From a musical about conversion therapy to the Australian debut of an East London grime star, Sydney Festival 2025 was full of music, performance and a little bit of magic.

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Fine Art Images/Heritage ... a kind of European political myth, and very important for European thoughts about Asia and the ...