Artnet

Art Bites: The Lost Colors of Ancient Greek Sculptures

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 art ...

Iconic Helmet of an Ancient Greek Warrior to Headline London Auction

Apollo Art Auctions presents an outstanding assemblage of over 500 lots of ancient art and antiquities, featuring one of the ...
PBS

Art, Prehistoric and Ancient

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...
Artnet

A Surprising Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Present Ancient Greek and Roman Sculptures in All Their Original Technicolor Glory

A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Mythology and the Birth of Renaissance Masterpieces

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...
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 ...
CNN

‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Classical Greek ...
KUOW

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 ...
Smith College

Classical Studies

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...
Greek Reporter

Who Were the Harpies in Ancient Greece and Rome?

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the sphinx.

Apollo Art Auctions: Iconic Helmet of an Ancient Greek Warrior to Headline London Auction

Apollo Art Auctions presents an outstanding assemblage of over 500 lots of ancient art and antiquities, featuring one of the ...