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 ...
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some ...
Dated to between 40 and 30 B.C. at the time of the eruption, it depicts the initiation ritual necessitated to enter the cult, ...
MADRID (AP) — The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once ...
Villa Cuomo, an archaeological gem discovered in 1974 in the town of Sant’Antonio Abate, continues to reveal its secrets.
it depicts the initiation ritual necessitated to enter the cult, a process known as the Mysteries of Dionysus. “Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality ...