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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Hercules, the famous mythological hero, is reconceived to resemble Superman in the 1997 Disney animated feature of the same name. A strange visitor from Mount Olympus, Hercules comes to Earth as a ...