The phrase "Greek art" usually conjures up images of sleekly carved marble youths, such as the Vatican's glorious Apollo Belvedere and Discus Thrower. But a stunning second-century-B.C. Greek bronze ...
Head of an Apoxyomenos (2nd-1st century BCE), Greek bronze (courtesy Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas/Scala, Firenze) (click to enlarge) Curated by Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, both ...
Torrential downpours in the small town of Olympia, Greece, have yielded an incredible discovery: a fully intact 3,000-year-old bronze bull figurine. The Greek culture ministry announced the remarkable ...
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the seventh century B.C. was probably ...
A reporter photographs "Statue of a Victorious Youth" on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum. AP Photo/Nick Ut Among the J. Paul Getty Museum’s most treasured items is a bronze Greek statue of a young ...
A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was right to try to reclaim an important part of its ...
“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 ...
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