With Gilding Notes: The Traditional English Method, master gilder Judith Wetherall shares her extensive knowledge about gilded wooden objects with the field at large. These are her practical notes, ...

Science and art combine in this captivating, lushly illustrated biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), one of the world’s first entomologists, who was also a botanist, naturalist, and ...

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Working in shops near shrines and temples in the ancient city of Tarentum, the coroplasts, or figurine modelers, produced enormous numbers of figurines for use by worshipers as votive or funeral ...

In 1896, Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a “modern” style suited to contemporary needs and ...

These extraordinary Egyptian images produced from Julio-Claudian times through the age of Constantine (the first four centuries A.D.), seem often to have been commissioned while the subject was still ...

Ed Ruscha's art is characterized by graphic simplicity, playful humor, and a keen interest in the vernacular as it applies to both language and architecture. This exhibition explores his photography, ...

Modern studies of ancient Greek vases have most often focused on the iconography of the painted images. Yet we know that in antiquity the potting of the vases was held in at least as much esteem as ...

The meaning of the word "ruin" has its origins in the idea of fallen stones. When we frame an object as a ruin, we reclaim it from a fall into decay and oblivion and often for a form of cultural ...

Worship of Aphrodite continued throughout the Roman period. Known as Venus, she came to symbolize Rome's imperial power. Like her Greek counterpart Aphrodite, Venus was intimately associated with love ...

Yi Wuzhi, Lang Xiangui Chemical Consolidation of Conglomerate and Sand at the Mogao Grottoes Li Zuixiong, Nevillew Agnew, Po-Ming Lin Research into the Control of Damage by Windblown Sand at the Mogao ...