Artnet

A Headless Ancient Sculpture Just Turned Up in the Trash in Greece

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 ...
NPR

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

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 ...
Cleveland.com

Newly purchased Greek vase shows Cleveland Museum of Art still committed to buying antiquities with clear provenance

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
Observer

The Best Art Galleries in Athens, Greece

Every year, Athens draws millions of history buffs to the sun-bleached stones of its ancient temples. The city’s legendary landmarks—the Acropolis with its iconic Parthenon, the Agora with its deep ...
Observer

How Collector Dakis Joannou Helped Turn Hydra into an Art World Destination

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 ...
Artnet

Ancient Sculptures Didn’t Just Look Good—They Also Smelled Heavenly, Study Finds

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 ...
Barron's

Ancient Marble Sculpture ‘The Hamilton Aphrodite’ Reappears at Auction After More Than 72 years

A marble sculpture featuring ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite will be offered at a single-lot sale on Dec. 7 at Sotheby's London, with a presale estimate between £2 million and £3 million (US$2.66 ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Goddess Hestia Statue Head Unearthed at Ancient City in Turkey

Archaeologists in western Turkey uncover a Hellenistic marble head believed to depict the Greek goddess Hestia.
Los Angeles Times

Art and Culture in Pompeii: The Ghosts of Greece

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- ...
Cleveland.com

Seizure of ancient sculpture at Cleveland Museum of Art signals a global shift over returning looted, contested artworks

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 2023 fall season at the Cleveland Museum of Art is not going exactly as planned. Ohio’s biggest art museum has been gearing up for the opening on Sunday, Sept. 10, of a major ...
The Atlantic

The Twilight of Greek and Roman Sculpture

IN the gallery of the Vatican may be seen a statue which for more than three centuries and a half has been considered one of the most precious products of the ancient chisel. The greatest artists have ...