After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by ...

The Edwardian period of furniture design falls in the years between Victorian and Art Deco. It is named for ... The paperweights include an Egyptian sarcophagus, Scottie dog, alligator, camel ...

The sarcophagus’ elaborately carved stone ... “That an ancient work of art can inspire artists working today is very much part of the Gardner’s DNA. It’s why Isabella collected these ...

In her book, Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, author Anna Marguerite McCann writes that this sarcophagus is the museum’s “one complete example of the ‘Eastern ...

Art Deco revelled in the here and now, rejecting all that came before it. It appropriated imagery from all over the world like a magpie, from Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus to the art of the Aztecs ...

In 1977 the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., acquired a 6th century B.C. sarcophagus that sources in the art world say may have come from an illicit dig in Turkey in the mid-1970s.The ...

The Velletri Sarcophagus is a masterpiece of Roman funerary art. Fusing Asian and Greek styles, its mythological reliefs depict the labors of the larger-than-life hero alongside the king and ...

A century after it was formally introduced at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in Paris, Art Deco is enjoying a resurgence in decor, fashion and more.

A show of commercial Art Deco posters opens later this month in Manhattan. By Eve M. Kahn This article is part of our Design special section about new interpretations of antique design styles.