A digital reconstruction of a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus fragment adorned with the face of a leopard © University of Milan The ancient Egyptians had a definite thing ...

The art of extreme costume makeup has come a long way. Consider, for example, the carefully painted faces of Broadway actors in Cats and then fast forward a few decades to Ralph Fiennes as a noseless, ...

The leopard face brass hip mask in the Allen Memorial Art Museum is the focal point for Blackmun's larger examination of the iconography of the leopard in Benin art. The leopard is a royal metaphor ...