Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...

Laurens wasn’t just painting the past ... and Ovid — a Rome shaped by Augustus Caesar. If Honorius marked the empire’s decline, Augustus announced its ascent. As Rome’s first emperor ...

(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images ... Following the deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, the victorious Octavian changed his name to Augustus Caesar and assumed sole control of ...

The world does not need another general biography of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor from 31 BC till his death in AD 14, unless it has something special to offer. Anthony Everitt’s selling point is ...

Her feisty attempts to retain her country’s independence by flattering, even in one case marrying, a succession of Roman generals, among them Julius Caesar ... the Emperor Augustus, the first ...

"Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy" painting by Henry Gibbs, 1654. TATE / VIA REUTERS The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector ...

Credit: Walters Art Museum, licensed under CC0 ... created the foundation upon which the mighty Rome we know today was established. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavianus in Latin, was ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! The National Park Service (NPS) has announced that the iconic cherry blossoms around Washington, D.C.'s Tidal Basin are now in peak bloom. Peak bloom ...

"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.