The body was central to the visual culture of ancient Greece, reflecting an obsession with physical beauty ... This sparky survey offers a critical review of the foreignness of Greek art, focusing in ...

The ancient Maya possessed many techniques for using their skin as a canvas on which to project information about their social role and status. One of the most common of these was body painting ...

The exhibition, titled The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art, is a collaborative effort ... "daily life," "adornment," and "human body." Zhu said the exhibition challenges the stereotype ...