an art historian spotting a missing painting on his social media feed, and an amateur excavator digging up a confounding ...

This painting shaped the way modern society envisions the ancient Roman gladiator. But was it historically accurate?

Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii. Discovered inside what ...

… At the end the painter asked me what I thought about it. I was not able to articulate any judgement… I only had the vague intuition that that pasty magma was sheltering the energy of a volcano about ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

The character of Roman art history has changed in recent years. More than ever before, it is concerned with the role of art in ancient society, including the functions that it served and the values ...

This book, first published in 2004, develops a theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and ...