Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ... The work lent a decorative flourish to a nouveau-riche household. To the Greeks, the marriage of color and form had deeper connotations ...

The study adds to research from the past decade into the art of antiquity that has found that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors. The myth of whiteness in ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

They were great builders too. The Greeks built grand temples to their gods and superb sculptures of brave heroes. Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed that the ...

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...

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