Art for Roman Holidays In ancient Pompeii and other leisure spots, villas were decorated to convey taste, status and nostalgia By Susan Delson Feb. 17, 2023 1:52 pm ET ...

An excavation in London has revealed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster to be discovered in the capital. Archaeologists have spent four years working on thousands of ...

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

The depictions included bright yellow panels with soft green borders (a rare color in Roman art), images of birds, flowers, lyres, fruit, candelabras, instruments, and mistletoe.

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster ...

The San Antonio Museum of Art's latest exhibition features 65 wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, silver vessels and pieces of cameo glass created in Roman Italy between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250.

Archaeology & History A ‘Titanic Puzzle’ of Ancient Roman Fresco Fragments Marks Thrilling Discovery It took three months of painstaking work to put the 'puzzle' together.

The British School at Rome (BSR) is a centre for research on the archaeology, history, and culture of Italy, and for contemporary art and architecture. It serves the needs of scholars and fine artists ...

A famous piece of early-third century Roman wall art, the “Alexamenos graffito,” depicts two human figures, with the head of a donkey, arms stretched out in a T-shaped cross, with the caption ...

Art World Rare Roman Wall Painting Discovered on London Construction Site This is its first time being seen in "nearly 2,000 years." ...