Archaeologists have recently uncovered an 1,800-year-old sculpture depicting an ancient hybrid deity at ... that appear to merge into the form of a snake. "Due to the weathering and the poor ...
It’s one of the biggest concentrations of rock art in the world ... Aboriginal Australia and ancient America. Classical Greek ...
The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...
The sacred sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” measures about 17.5 inches by 13 inches and was carved from schist, a dark metamorphic rock. As part of “ongoing ...
This sculpture tells us a lot about Roman ideas of death. The snake is a transformative symbol because it sheds its skin but doesn't die, and the pine cone falls from an evergreen tree but ...
The sacred sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” measures about 17.5 inches by 13 inches and was carved from schist, a dark metamorphic rock. As part of “ongoing ...
The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda, will be returned to its home country after provenance research at the ...
This 12th century Nepali sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” regularly displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1997, is heading back to its country of origin.