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Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.
Universal Pictures has released the first poster for The Odyssey, the upcoming epic film from Oscar winner Christopher Nolan.
A “misogynistic” sculpture depicting a woman “tied in a sack” should be removed from display, a councillor has said. Ariadne (Wrapped) was unveiled outside Cambridge railway station by ...
In an intensely spiritual moment, Jackie Webb leaned over and kissed the image of Christ crucified Tuesday evening in the ...
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 ...
The Greek letters gamma, nu, omega, theta, iota, sigma, epsilon, alpha, upsilon, tau, omicron and nu are inscribed on the front of the figure. The figure's body tapers into the base, which is also ...
“The Greek Slave,” a copy of which is housed in the Yale University Art Gallery, was initially created in 1844 by American sculptor Hiram Powers in his studio in Florence, Italy. It shows a captive of ...
The long-known symbol of the Rolls-Royce brand, the Spirit of Ecstasy recalls the marble Greek sculpture "The Winged Victory of Samothrace" which inspired the first version of the Spirit in 1910.
“The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through Sept. 14.
A copy of a then-500-year-old Greek sculpture, the modeling of this unusually intact work is more plain and sedate than more ornate styles common in Roman sculpture at the time.