Two monumental artworks from a Roman-era estate in Greece are revealing how one of antiquity’s richest men may have used art ...
In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...
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, ...
The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is unveiling an ambitious transformation in the George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing for Art of the Ancient World: five reimagined ...
Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries were greeted by an enormous funerary vase, a creation of the ninth-century B.C., depicting in somber ocher and ...
Ancient Greek poetry from Homer to Sappho shows that beautiful ankles, feet and graceful movement formed ideals of physical ...
Art collector Dakis Joannou’s DESTE Project Space Slaughterhouse on Hydra is topped with a sculpture by Jeff Koons. Photo by Catherine Panchout/ Sygma via Getty Images For the past many years, the ...
The Museum of Fine Arts has announced Anastasia Christophilopoulou as the new George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, Art of Ancient Greece and Rome. She will replace Christine Kondoleon, who served as ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Thousands of years ago, on the continent of Europe, some people live their everyday lives in one of the ...
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- ...
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