Roman Arts

A day to visit Hereford.(City overview)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1661 words; ...through 900 years. Recently, a three-year art project has been completed to celebrate...animals and birds: Hereford Museum and Art Gallery. A peek inside gives more insights...everything from a woolly mammoth tooth to Roman mosaics and Civil War boots. As to lunch...

Ancient sling: the weapon that turned rock throwing into an art form.(Hand Tool)(Brief article)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 672 words; ...the technique takes practice. Still, the Old Testament account of David and Goliath demonstrates its deadly potential, and Roman army trainers expected a proficient slinger to strike targets at up to 200 yards, about the same standard as that of archers...

STAYING IN FILMS ON TELEVISION
The Independent - London; 12/26/2009; 2046 words; ...Gershwins' songs ("I've Got Rhythm", "S'Wonderful"), the art direction and the dancing are all sublime. And that's even...classic in its own right. The Pianist 11.45pm ITV1 **** (Roman Polanski, 2002) Before 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody...

O'Reilly: life, pieced together
The Boston Globe; 12/25/2009; 1152 words; ...extraordinary "John O'Reilly: Art From Four Decades" at the Howard...these images, which shimmer with art history quotations, frank avowals...figures, among them a Greek or Roman statue with a blackbird perched...Maximilian"). Allusions to art history are fine, but they can...

Looting Matters: Antiquities Returned to Italy.
Politics & Government Week; 12/24/2009; 672 words; ...in raids in June 2009. One of the pieces was a fragment of a Roman wall-painting that had been discovered at Boscoreale on the...archaeological store at Pompeii in June 1997. It seems that the Art Loss Register identified the fragment from images posted on the...