Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...

During the Hellenistic and Classical periods, ancient Greek sculpture aimed to depict the human form realistically but in an idealized and harmonious state. Greek Sculptors carefully studied human ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

The rebuilding of the British Museum itself seems almost like the perfect moment for the Marbles, noted the Chair of the ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

For decades, Greek authorities have been arguing for the permanent return of the so-called Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. These include about half of the surviving fragments of ...

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...