Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

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The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

Maro Gorky talks about misognist art school tutors, family friend Francis Bacon, and her new career retrospective at the ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

The opening ceremony of a special exhibition on Minoan civilization in Greece was held on Monday at the Palace Museum in Beijing. The exhibition, named "Daedalus: Legends of Crete," brings together ...

How peaceful were the Minoans, really? Why did they leave behind no iconography of war, no murals of battles, no towering ...

How would you spend your holiday in Greece - unravelling the mysteries of ancient civilisations or making the most of the cracking coastline? Our duelling experts make the case for both.

Visiting sites of ancient mosaics in Europe and in Egypt, connected with African art, early Greek Cycladic art, Minoan art—all of it has influenced me. ART21: How do you begin processing all these ...

and both Theran and Minoan cultures made use of this method of grilling skewered pieces of meat. The Therans and the Minoans were known for their luxurious lifestyles, well-made and colorful clothes, ...