Greek Reporter

The Beginning of the Classical Style in Ancient Greek Sculpture

The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...
Case Western Reserve University

Learn more about ”afterlife” of ancient Greek sculptures at Julius Fund Lecture

The Department of Art History and Art will host Rachel Kousser, professor of Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, for the ...
Fox News

Archaeologists excavate ancient workshop with unfinished sculptures on Greek island

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop in Greece, revealing a trove of unfinished projects and other curiosities. The project was announced by Greece's Ministry of Culture in a Facebook ...
Yahoo

How a group of ancient sculptures sparked a dispute between Greece and the UK

FILE - The moon rises in the sky behind the 5th century B.C. Parthenon temple at the ancient Acropolis hill, in Athens, July 31, 2023. The Parthenon Sculptures have been displayed in London for more ...
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 ...
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 ...
LAist

Greece Unveils Museum Meant For 'Stolen' Sculptures

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La Brújula Verde

The Head of a Kore from Athens Found in the Ancient Etruscan City of Vulci, One of the Few Archaic Sculptures Discovered Outside Greece

The presentation in the Italian capital last Friday, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, of a ...
KPBS

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 ...
Psychology Today

Greek and Roman Sculptures Were Perfumed

The senses are not created equal when it comes to aesthetics. Much of our aesthetic engagement is visual or auditory. In the museum, in the theatre, at concerts, we use our eyes and ears. And while ...
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'We've lost our marbles': British intellectual opposes return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece

Andrew Norman Wilson, a prolific and influential British author who regularly writes for The Times of London, expressed his opposition to any scenario involving the return of the Parthenon Sculptures ...