Puzzling questions are the focus of the exhibition Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed. By Tristan BravinderSocial Media...
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What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
In 1943, a propagandistic ideal meant creating a modern Ukraine through Soviet industrialization, even as the republic...
A key requisite for the use and appreciation of all beads and pendants is a level of...
Analyzing an eighteenth-century automaton from South Asia in the image of a tiger mauling a British soldier....
‘Thought-Forms, a strange, beguiling, frequently pretentious, utterly original book first published in 1901, emerged from a ferment...
When art and science come together, the relationship tends to be uneven, and too often art becomes...
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over....
Over the past two decades Australian archaeologists have been slowly uncovering the World Heritage-listed ancient theatre site at...
Wellcome Library, Creative Commons A tattoo is defined as an indelible mark fixed upon the body by...
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel...
The British poster artist Cyril Kenneth Bird, known as Fougasse, once referred to posters as “anything stuck...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica. Introduction...
The Domus Aurea (Golden House), located between the Esquiline and Palatine Hills, was one of Nero’s most...
The tattooed right hand of a Chiribaya mummy is displayed at El Algarrobal Museum, near the port...
Tattoo on an ancient Egyptian female mummy / Creative Commons For thousands of years, tattoos have been indicative of the passage from girlhood to...
Basketry bowl with checkerboard and arrow head motif / Mint Museum Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
The Kaminaljuyú clay figurine from the Middle to late Preclassic (1500 BC – 150 AD). (Kaminal Juyú...