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

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece — For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute: what is the right place for some of the finest ancient ...

This is like entering a dream or a Terry Gilliam animation. It does not seem quite real. Some of the greatest classical sculptures in the world have been brought together in the opening section of the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a ...