South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The two high-relief sculptures were transferred to the Great Gymnasium of the excavations to begin restoration and will be among the prominent exhibits in the exhibition Being a Woman in Ancient ...

The pediments featured complex relief sculptures portraying mythological ... Honorific statues and their bases are an important aspect of ancient Greek art and culture. They were commissioned ...

The statue showed a deceased woman reaching for the shadow box held by her attendant, a typical motif in Greek funerary art. The two evident holes on its base were proof of an ancient repair.

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

Contemporary writings on art, including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed.

Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures with colorful paint, as well as jewelry, fabrics, flowers, garlands and ribbons. Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are ...