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 ...
PBS

Art Bites 104: Ancient Greek Sculputure

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 ...
Hyperallergic

How Ancient Greek Art Inspired the Ballet Russes

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, ...
Greek Reporter

The Mysterious Art of Alchemy in the Byzantine World

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...
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

Music Education in Ancient Greece Was as Important as Philosophy

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

How a tiny stone from a warrior's tomb is shaking up ancient Greek art at Getty Villa

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...
ARTnews on MSN

A rare Greek funerary sculpture, priced north of $600,000, heads to TEFAF

There is already significant interest from a major U.S. museum, says David Aaron gallery.
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- ...
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 ...