Apollo and Hermes (detail of), Francesco Albani, 1635, oil on copper, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau‎, France Hermes was the...

Orpheus and Eurydice, by Sir. Edward John Poynter, 1862, private collection Son of Calliope, the muse of Poetry, Orpheus bought music on...

Pandora, by John William Waterhouse, 1896, private collection The myth we are about to tell has originally been told in the poem Works...

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Joos de Momper the Younger (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum) Icarus was the son of a very talented...

Apollo Sauroktonos, (detail) After Praxiteles CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons The cult of Apollo was imported directly from ancient...

Regarding the birth of Aphrodite there are three different versions: the first one wants her to be the daughter of Poseidon (in other...

Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur intertwine their adventures in a maze of betrayals, bestial appetites and human sacrifices. One of the...

Who doesn't know the legendary deeds of Heracles, even if with time the Roman variant Hercules, one of the most famous and celebrated...

Who was the father of Men, Zeus or Prometheus? Eh, hard to say, really. The myths, on this issue, often get confused and confuse our...

Today’s myth brings us to Colophon, in the region of Lydia, where a young and talented weaver, who went by the name of Arachne, lived....

Who does not know Cupid, the sweetest and spiteful god of love? Eros for the Greeks, the most tender and turbulent god of Olympus, was an...

Slavery Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 12 February-30 May 2021 Enslaved man working on the fields (around 1850) by an unknown artist The...

Pandemic Art Faire Sarah Fox (SARAH FOX | pandemicfaire.com) Obviously not an exhibition that existed during the pre-COVID-19 era, the...

The most beautiful stories in the world are those that explain the genealogy, nature and the existence of things. We bring you today the...

As it was conceived in antiquity, art represents reality, its evolutions, the glories of nature, feelings, and emotions. As a...

Who better to depict women than a woman? Women are complex beings, full of faces, emotions, dreams, and desires. Sometimes a simple look...

Political activist, street artist, vandal, or genius? The many facets that characterize the “Banksy phenomenon” are constantly under the...

Florentjn Hofman Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist who creates playful urban installations like the Rubber Duck and the HippopoThames,...

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the environment needs constant supervision and care if we want to sustain our...

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were...