A Roman-era stele in Thessaloniki, Greece, revives debate on the “devil’s horns” gesture, exploring its origins across cultures.

For generations, those who mourn the passing of others have tried in some public displays to honor the memory of the departed. The practice goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ...

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation touts itself as part art museum, part laboratory, with a commitment to innovation as firm as its commitment to showcasing the world’s finest art. With its new exhibition ...

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon recently underwent some curatorial staff changes, with Charles Lachman stepping down as curator of Asian art to devote his energies ...

Painting conservator Sally Woodcock got right to the point when discussing mummy brown pigment during Harvard Art Museums’s “Conversations Around Funerary Portraits.” In short, she said, it’s “paint ...

Princes of Ancient Greece' at the Getty Villa gives the first look outside Europe at the ancient Greek Griffin Warrior, whose ...

James Silliman, a captain in Pennsylvania’s 28th Regiment Regiment was only 32 years old when he died on July 31, 1865. As ...

Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to ...

Researchers from the University of Hradec Králové have uncovered a massive 6,000-year-old burial mound in the Czech Republic, which may be one of Europe’s oldest and longest funerary monuments. This ...

The Art Bulletin, Vol. 100, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2018), pp. 7-27 (21 pages) The representation of the sense of touch contributed to the mnemonic function of Classical Attic grave monuments. Tactile ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Darby Ulery, with the Mobile Museum of Art, and H.F. "Tige" Marston, a cemetery specialist with the Mobile Parks and Recreation Department, hosted a funerary art tour at the Magnolia ...