In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a ...

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?

It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 Caravaggio for auction. It is expected to go for $170 ...

One Wayne G came in at 523 minutes long. At the time, it seemed novel. Now, it looks like a diegesis in the story of art. This Record Store Day, the Far Out Magazine music team were tasked with ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Her death provoked an outpouring of grief from the art world. Ms Cunningham, who was living in Wandsworth, was a resident artist at the Lisson Gallery near Marylebone. Colleagues described her as ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. AN art gallery in Broadway is ready to launch an exhibition to mark the centenary of the death of an American artist. The Broadway Museum and ...

As a college senior, I wanted to be Socrates and approached people at the Art Institute, which to me was the Chicago ... You write that Socrates believed humans struggle most with politics, love and ...

However, while his crying character may have inspired a series of horrors on the big screen, it was his painting from six years later, Death and the Child, which is said to have inspired the most real ...

Neither Socrates’ decision not to conscientiously object to fighting for Athens in the Peloponnesian War, nor his refusal to escape his death sentence after being found guilty of “corrupting ...