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While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue ... an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1.85 million from Edward H. Merrin Inc., a New York art gallery.
According to new research, this also included the sense of smell, which was aroused by smothering ancient ... The Greek poet Kallimachos, meanwhile, described a sculpture of the Egyptian queen ...
In the Museum of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art you can discover about 2000 full-sized replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures - right in the center of Munich. Around 2000 replicas of Greek and Roman ...
But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in a new study, they were even coated with deeply aromatic perfumes. In ancient Greece and Rome ...
Integrated into the sites natural surroundings and inspired by the famed oracle of Delphi and Pythia, the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo, the high-tech artwork blends historical imagery like ...
We reveal original designs and alternative plans for some iconic monuments, so you can imagine the world's cityscapes as they ...
A pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action—poured latex and foam, cinched metal, dripped wax—Benglis has created sculptures that eschew minimalist ...
When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...
Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.
A haunting new immersive experience is about to take over a historic venue in Toronto, transforming the space into Ancient Greece for a daring ... From depictions in classic art, film, comics ...
After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...