Art

A magnificent sculpted golden comb made by a Greek sculptor, with a crest showing Scythian warriors in battle, is one of the great treasures of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The golden ornament, known around the world as...

An all-female snow sculpting team from the United States plans to create a snow version of the Greek goddess Artemis to celebrate NASA's mission to put a woman on the Moon. The Chickadees, an all-women group from Maine, will represent...

On Thursday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) is introducing a new display on Cycladic Art featuring some 161 works made in the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BCE) from The Leonard N. Stern Collection, which is owned...

The pair of stunning gold cups, called the "Vapheio Cups," are considered masterpieces of ancient Greek art. The expertly crafted gold objects were found at the Vapheio tholos tomb in Lakonia, Greece in the late nineteenth century. The pair of...

Atlanta's Emory University returned three stolen artifacts from the Michael C. Carlos Museum collection to Greece on Monday after confirming that the antiquities were illegally acquired or trafficked. The agreement for repatriation, signed by the Emory University Provost Ravi V....

Any visitor to Ermou, the main shopping street in Athens, has likely seen Spyros Tarapossos and his laterna, or barrel piano. The laterna is an automatic piano operated by turning a crank on the side of the instrument. It is...

There are countless masterpieces of Ancient Greek art scattered in museums around the world.

An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring a lone ear may seem strange to us today, but it was actually created with the hopes that someone would be healed of an affliction related to their own ear. The fourth-century relief, which...

The beloved painting, The Carols (Greek: Τα Κάλαντα), created in 1872 by the Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras, is one of the most famous works in the history of modern Greek art. It is still admired today and is widely shared...

Byzantine contribution to art, and especially to painting, was original and reached a degree of expressiveness that can rarely be compared with any other

The famous Greek foot commonly found in ancient Greek statues, was initially attributed to the Golden Ratio artists were seeking for their works

A Greek flag in pink colors exhibited in the Greek consulate of New York has caused anger in Athens with Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis ordering the artwork to be withdrawn. The controversial piece by artist Georgia Lale was exhibited to...

The most long awaited re-opening is that of Greece's National Gallery, which houses countless masterpieces of Greek art.

The story of Alexandros Iolas, Greece's greatest art collector, reads, appropriately, like a Greek tragedy.

Italy's iconic Garisenda Tower, a leaning wonder standing tall for almost a millennium, might be facing its final days. After recent investigations, the city is taking serious steps to prepare for the possible sudden collapse of this historic tower...