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Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...
While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...
Archaeologists discovered that a Hellenistic-era sculpture workshop was built atop an older residential complex on the Greek island of Paros. The latest excavations at the Floga archaeological site ...
A dialogue between material, motion and memory gently unfolds through a series of marble installations, aiming to shift perceptions of this elemental Greek material via ethereal expressions of duality ...
Ancient Greek marble grave relief of a family, dating to the 1st century BC, from the Athens area. Credit: Gary Todd, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. But let’s not romanticize antiquity. While men debated ...
"Run your eyes up towards the sky and take a look at the painted reliefs of the pediment ... period about 530 B.C., and made of marble from the Greek island of Paros, the figure of a young ...
Most of the selections are marble portraits of emperors and officials and depictions of gods and goddesses, but there are also reliefs ... Beaux-Arts spaces where Greek and Roman art is displayed ...
This repatriation follows a ceremony in Manhattan scheduled for February 25, where the items will be officially handed back to Greek officials. The recovered artifacts include a remarkable marble ...
The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens, dating to circa 420–410 BC, is a stunning example of classical art. It is housed in the National ...
Police in Thessaloniki, the second-largest Greek city after Athens, said a 32-year-old man handed the statue over to authorities after allegedly finding it Saturday evening. The white marble ...
An ancient Greek statue currently displayed at the ... a throne alongside her servant," reported Gazzetta. The 37-inch marble relief dates back to around 1000 BCE. The object features two ...
It is renowned for its golden-white color and is particularly noted for its use in ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Perhaps the most famous example of Pentelic marble is the Parthenon on ...