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 ...

A pair of ancient tombs featuring paintings of Greek mythological characters, in one of the world’s oldest urban areas, will soon be open to the public. Located in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the exhibitors at this year’s Tefaf art and antiques fair in Maastricht were invited to propose displays ...

GREAT art is rising like a bright phoenix from the grey ashes around Mt. Vesuvius. The world’s greatest painters, according to the writers of ancient Greece and Rome, were Greeks—Polygnotus, Zeuxis, ...

This damaged portrait of a Roman woman was found in the town of Herculaneum, which ceased to exist after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. Photograph courtesy Roberto Alberti Iron element maps created ...

In 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat was invited to travel to Modena in northern Italy by the Italian gallerist Emilio Mazzoli to make eight works for a one-off show. By Basquiat’s own account it was a ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...