A remarkable wooden sculpture depicting the mythological hero Hercules has emerged from an ancient refuse pit on the Spanish island of Ibiza, impressing archaeologists with its state of preservation.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art owns only one print by Hercules Segers (1589–1638), but that hasn’t stopped it from mounting an outstanding show of works by the somewhat-obscure Dutch painter, ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1752): The great thing about art history is that it helps you place works of art and understand how they played out in their cultural moment. And sometimes it’s also useless. My own ...

The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist. Already a member? Sign in here.

NEW HAVEN — How many artists can boast that they influenced Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albrecht Durer? Antonio Pollaiuolo could. He was the masterful Florentine sculptor, painter, ...

Dynamic Duos: The Art of Working in Pairs opened at The New York Public Library. Challenging ideas of the singular creative genius, this exhibition features prints. Joseph Beuys’s 100th birthday is ...

Tuesday is a big day. It's Russian President Vladimir Putin's birthday, and he's celebrating the big 6-2. While 62 may be a non-milestone of a birthday, one birthday present suggests otherwise. For ...

The title character arrives onstage late in Handel's opera Hercules. Home from the maelstrom of war, he is provocatively silent, and brings with him a prisoner, the princess Iole. Before the opera is ...