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 ...

An ancient Roman sarcophagus found in Israel, featuring the Greek god Dionysus and Hercules, looks like a scene straight out ...

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 ...

This is the first time we are finding the scene of the wine contest between the god Dionysus and Hercules on a sarcophagus in ...

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 ...

Humanity dusts off a black sarcophagus with aged ... While Sunday Nobody has created numerous pieces of “meme art,” he said it was still a hobby alongside his full-time job.

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 ...

An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston ... Met bought the piece from a Paris art dealer in 2017 for about $4 million. It was returned to Egypt in 2019.