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While Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of the deities Zeus and Dione, Hesiod tells of her marine birth from the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos. The oil jar at right elegantly ...

In 2018, a select group of scientists and conservators experienced with the microfading tester met to discuss the current state of the technique and to propose how its practice might be expanded in ...

The names Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger evoke the dazzling accomplishments of Renaissance panel painting and printmaking, but they may not summon images of stained glass. Nevertheless, ...

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas explores the development of luxury arts from 1200 BC to the beginnings of European colonization in the sixteenth century. Made of precious ...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area's indigenous cultures. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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