A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some ...

The depiction of a Dionysiac mystery cult now serves as an “exceptional historical document,” allowing us a glimpse into one ...

There has been plenty of good news for country music fans in 2025, but there has been heartbreak, too. A handful of legendary ...

Dutch painter Johannes Torrentius was lost to time—until his only extant painting surfaced. Read more in this edition of Art ...

IAN HOLLOWAY enjoyed four years out of football as he focussed on painting and travelling Britain in his motorhome. One of his proudest pieces of art was an acrylic painting of West Ham legend and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient paintings in Villa Cuomo, Italy, depicting Roman wine harvesting linked to Dionysus ...

Now, archeologists have uncovered a sensational fresco in Pompeii depicting a mysterious cult of raving, intoxicated women. Found at the newly-excavated House of Thiasus, the wall art depicts ...

Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting, the frescos unfurl a ... Dionysus’s retinue and followers. The ancient cult of Dionysus, the park noted, required initiates ...

Set against a ruby-red backdrop, the wall paintings depict female followers of Dionysus—the Greek god of wine and ecstasy—engaged in secretive cult rituals. Also known as maenads or bacchantes, the ...