The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, (MFA) has announced the opening of three new galleries this week to showcase its collection of Greek and Roman art. The Boston Globe reports that Christine Kondoleon ...
Building on their collaboration, Pacsun partnered with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to introduce The Greek and Roman Collection. The collection, which launched Friday, is priced between $25 and $90 ...
Artworks depicting the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, have long been branded obscene. How did she become one of ...
A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...
In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...
Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...
“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
The University of Nottingham has appointed internationally renowned archaeologist Dr Georgios Spyropoulos as Honorary Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology. A leading authority on Greek and ...
If you’ve ever set foot in a Greek and Roman art museum, you’ve probably seen the rows of tranquil-looking concrete busts. They do, however, have no pupils in the eyes, lack any sort of color, and in ...
Five “reimagined” galleries at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have now opened to expand the display of the museum’s impressive collection of art from the ancient world, fulfilling the longtime vision of ...