Homer's The Iliad is a landmark of ancient Greek literature, and many famous artists continue to portray it in their artworks ...

Throughout the centuries, Homer's works, particularly The Odyssey, inspired artists and influenced the subject matter of ...

The painting technique used was simple, consisting of opaque watercolor on paper. The artist began by laying out the composition with charcoal or thin black ink applied with either a brush or pen. The ...

A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...

Let's explore the world's most expensive paintings and their impact on art history, from Da Vinci's $450.3 million 'Salvator Mundi' to Picasso's $174 million 'Les Femmes d'Alger'. "Salvator Mundi ...

Your Paintings Launched earlier this year by the BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation, Your Paintings is an interactive resource and online catalogue that aims to include every ...

The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...

Leaf's The Iliad, with introduction and notes, first appeared in two volumes (1886–1888), and was regarded for several decades as the best English edition of Homer's epic poem. Volume 1 of the 1900 ...

Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Who says this Government failed to plan for power? It may not have worked out credible ideas to raise productivity, control ...

in Homer's Iliad, commanded the Greek forces during the Trojan War. Mycenae is a prehistoric Greek city located in Peloponnese Peninsula and celebrated by Homer as "rich in gold". The mask ...