The only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms was unveiled in Athens.

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...

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, ...

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 ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the ...

Five “reimagined” galleries at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have now opened to expand the display of the museum’s impressive collection of art from the ancient world, fulfilling the longtime vision of ...

This book presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid — ...

In 1903 Auguste Rodin said, “The most interesting thing about London is the number of its antiquities. In my spare time I simply haunt the British Museum.” It was an uncharacteristically understated ...