Artemisia Gentileschi, the Baroque trailblazer, painted women not as passive muses but as powerful agents of their own stories. From the visceral drama of Judith Slaying Holofernes to the sensual ...

The handshake is believed to date back to the 9th century B.C. as historians have ancient art depicting Assyrian and ...

The year was 1972 and under the cover of darkness, three men descended into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through a skylight, tied up several guards, and made off with $2 million in stolen art, ...

Evil and wickedness are hard to witness, and people since the dawn of time have devised ways to explain why bad things happen ...

Review: The Secrets Of Painting by Lachlan Goudie is a fascinating look at the 20 paintings the Scottish artist thinks changed the world ...

After Assyrian families in Skokie, Niles, Morton Grove and Lincolnwood spent nearly a decade advocating for an Assyrian language program at Niles Township High School District 219, the program, the ...

Buying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art can be meaningful, but how do you know if it's real and ethical? Fake art is still a problem in Australia, and protections are still developing. This ...

This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources ...

A group of excavators recently uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem — shedding light on ancient power struggles described in the Bible. The inscription, which was carved on ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in the Old Testament. “For me as a historian, this is somewhat ...