It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

"All pictures supplied by the Bridgeman Art Library." Classical myth and legend -- The Bible and the life of Christ -- Saints and their miracles -- History ...

Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have ...