animals in art

February 25, 2019
The Extraordinary Creatures of Antonio Pisanello

November 5, 2018
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Italian Art

June 10, 2018
Dogs in Roman Life and Art Though she was educated at Cambridge and because a full professor at Oxford University, archaeologist and art historian Joceyln Toynbee published under the initials J.M.C.

May 20, 2018
Horse Found in Pompeii Excavation A complete figure of a horse buried in volcanic matter has been discovered in Pompeii for the very first time.

February 12, 2017
The combined rites practiced by the cult of the Hirpi Sorani (“wolves of Soranus”) in the pagan peninsular countryside and those to honor Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome who were nursed by a wolf, partly explain the name of the Lupercalia, a festival celebrated each February.

August 21, 2016
Animal-Themed Art in Pakistan The first Pakistan-based solo show of an Italian contemporary artist calls attention to the plight of the country’s fragile population of fauna, which includes the endangered snow leopard and the threatened markhor, a large mountain goat.

August 14, 2016
Fragments of brightly-painted Roman frescoes have been discovered in Zippori National Park in Israel by a team from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .