Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

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