Guarded by an iconic pair of bronze lions, the Art Institute of Chicago houses a permanent collection of nearly 300,000 ...

According to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Marble and wood sculptures were brightly painted, and bronze statues ...

The Canon of Polykleitos, a lost masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture and an enduring symbol of Classical aesthetics, has been recreated by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which has placed the ...

For most people, the idea of ancient Greek sculpture conjures up an image of smooth, featureless white stone. It's an image ...

ROME — The greatest challenge of mounting an exhibition about the famous ancient Greek artist Phidias (c. 480–c. 430 BCE) is that not a single surviving piece of work can be attributed to him with ...

“There are few subjects in the field of ancient art that have aroused such heated and prolonged controversy as polychromy in Greek sculpture,” observed the curator Gisela Richter in 1944, preparing ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Greece has long maintained that the 2,500-year-old sculptures, removed by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and currently held in the British Museum, should be returned. Mitsotakis ...