When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white ... and finial in the form of a sphinx, from the classical period of Greek culture: ""This comes ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from ...

Ancient Greek sculpture has fascinated the art lovers of the Roman Empire ... there is evidence that wooden and metal ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

While, for example, the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic ... the Discobolus is a testament to the enduring achievement of Classical Greek art, and promises to be a stalwart symbol of the Olympic Games ...

"In ancient Greek art, there are many different kinds of nudity ... published in the Jan. issue of the American Journal of Archaeology, also found examples of defeated, dying and dead naked ...

A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of ... of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting and have become emblems of the ancient world. The Apollo Art Auctions company ...

When the exhibitors at this year’s Tefaf art and antiques fair in Maastricht ... There are many artists known in the world of ancient Greek black-figure vase-painting — the first identifiable ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were ...