ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...

Recently, the world got a rare treat: new frescoes were unearthed from Pompeii that show mythological scenes from the Trojan ...

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...

Photograph by DAGLI ORTI/ART ARCHIVE At age 14 ... During Elagabalus’s reign, it was assimilated with the Roman god Sol Invictus. On coins, the stone figure is adorned with crowns and garlands ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painting shows a gathering of Roman gods and goddesses, tended upon by satyrs and nymphs in a ...

Featuring gods and emperors alike ... “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through June 29.

Virginia’s flag and state seal feature Virtus, the Roman goddess of virtue ... Some people call that art. The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, in fast-growing territory west ...

The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed ... of a classically depicted drawing of a bare bosom, according to ...

How can the presence of figural synagogue art be reconciled with the second ... wheel consisting of a central figure of the Greco-Roman sun god Helios, surrounded by a circle of the 12 zodiac ...

(Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a ... of Classics who specializes in Greek and Roman art history and was not involved in the study ...