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 ...
Artnet

MSCHF Recasts an Ancient Greek Sculpture With Mickey Mouse

Art collective MSCHF has just revealed a rodent-themed artwork that’s been long in the making—three years, to be specific, or decades, if we’re going by copyright terms. Walt Disney and His Sons is ...
Greek Reporter

Apoxyomenos: The Ancient Greek Masterpiece Salvaged from the Sea

The ancient Greek statue of Apoxyomenos is an ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping dust from his body with a strigil.
Newsweek

Lost Colorful Beauty of Ancient Greek Parthenon Marbles Revealed

The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...
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 ...
Greek Reporter

Common Greek Myths Found Throughout Art History

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...
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 ...
The New Criterion

“The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the Met

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...
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This elegant drawing of a Greek sculpture is 'Imperfectly perfect'

'"Paint me like one of your Greek sculptures" is something Dileep Varma could be hearing from a lot of people in the near future, and this video happens to show why. This incredible footage features ...
CNBC

UK's Sunak snubs Greek PM at last minute amid ancient sculpture dispute

Greece has long maintained that the 2,500-year-old sculptures, removed by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and currently held in the British Museum, should be returned. Mitsotakis ...
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 ...