The Greek urn may rank as civilization’s highest achievement: a curvilinear fusion of form and function. The art historian ponders the ancient Greek urn while sipping coffee from the modern Greek urn: ...

Apotheon is the game John Keats might have made if he were a game designer. In May 1819, John Keats left his job as an assistant surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London to dedicate himself to the ...

FROM the moment they were dug out of their forgotten tombs early in the 19th century, ancient Greek vases moved art lovers to lyrical expressions of delight. One Grecian urn inspired John Keats to ...

The voting instructions hung on the wall, printed in English and Spanish. “Ballot box” is Spanish urna — recognizably “urn.” Both English and Spanish get that word from Latin. And the Romans got the ...

It began in the Old World when ancient Roman urns were periodically unearthed around the time of the American Revolution. Most held ashes of the Romans whose empire once governed much of Britain and ...

The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. A model of Olympia is on display at the DMA on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The Dallas Museum ...