The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around ... while red sometimes picked out the hair of other human figures or the manes of horses (5). Once the vessel ...

The researchers interpreted the painting as a narrative scene, which they said would make it the oldest-known evidence of storytelling in art. "The three human-like figures and the pig figure were ...

Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists ... redated a scene of part human, part animal figures hunting warty ...

“But in the process I believe I have made a contribution to humanism in 20th century painting,” Pearlstein continued. “I rescued the human figure from its tormented, agonized condition given ...

Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by the human body. His disdain for painters who did not bother to learn anatomy was barely concealed in his criticisms of those who “draw their nude figures ...

The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern ...