Encaustic painting is an ancient technique of mixing hot molten ... material that would inevitably crack and break on a flexible background like canvas or paper. The artists of Greek and Roman ...

Scherer. If you've ever been to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, though, you may have seen his paintings — probably without realizing it. Scherer died at age 98 a ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

At some point in the 2nd century C.E., this painting was likely commissioned to adorn the mummified body of a noblewoman in ancient Egypt ... for the green-yellow background, iron earths and ...

Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than ... Tumblr "People of Color in European Art History" addresses the dearth of people of color ...

Perhaps they even envision some assemblage of overgrowth obscuring a remarkable work of ancient art. What’s probably ... that hardly stand out against the background of the desert landscape.” ...

They're in China's Zhangye and Dunhuang, oases along the ancient Silk Road ... because of his chemistry background. He spent a decade repairing flaking paint and removing dust.

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

It may not be a golden goose, but a feathered friend depicted in an ancient Egyptian painting is still delighting scientists the world over. Anthony Romilio, a researcher in the Dinosaur Lab at ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper ...