Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, was influenced by Greek light, spirit, and spiritual ...

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 ...

I rarely paid attention to images or pictures. My focus was always the written word. My mind built the gods, heroes, and material artifacts, including temples and the Parthenon. I had to do that ...

The most telling syllables in the exhibition’s title are the two in “-istic”. I’m old enough to remember when they were meant to be pejorative: The Hellenes were what the ancient Greeks called ...

Early Greek statues had their left leg sticking out as a tradition borrowed from Egypt, something that gave way to natural ...

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

“For the Greek people, a tribute from Picasso,” Pablo Picasso inscribed on the back of his painting “Head of a Woman,” which he presented as a gift to the National Art Gallery of Athens in 1946, to ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

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 ...