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 ...

Greek mythology’s influence on modern literature and art is undeniable, forming the basis of storytelling, symbolism, and ...

The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...

On the heels of this summer's Olympic Games in London, the Portland Art Museum has teamed with the British Museum to present "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece," a collection of more than 130 ...

Although his work is legendary in ancient Greek sculpture, Phidias himself remains fugitive, a blank space whose outlines can be discerned in the copies of his works. "Fragment of the north frieze ...

The monuments and artifacts represented in the slide identification portion of the M.A. comprehensive exam will be those illustrated in these texts. Students should demonstrate advanced knowledge and ...

What does it mean to "change art"? Art, in any definition, is so much a business of transformation that change is always and everywhere part of its nature, whether you think of it in physical terms ...

Polygnotus, the “Homer of painters,” transformed ancient Greek art with monumental murals that merged myth, history, and ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...