Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

On the Greek island of Delos, inscriptions reveal that statues ... This is not how people admired these works of art when ...

On the heels of this summer's Olympic Games in London, the Portland Art Museum has teamed with the British Museum to present "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece," a collection of more than 130 ...

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 ...

Over fifty artistic representations of hunchbacks survive in Greek and Roman art. They come in the form of mosaics, statuettes, ceramics, wall painting and even sculpture.

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

How Ancient Greek Art Inspired the Ballet Russes The Ballets Russes had a longtime dalliance with Ancient Greek traditions especially in the ballet’s most innocent, primitive, and erotic aspects.

In ancient Greece, “poetry, music and drama were one,” the musician said while leading a recent tour of his artwork at the center’s secluded campus a few blocks off Embassy Row in Northwest ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's recent purchase of an ancient Greek vase shows it's still in the market for antiquities, despite controversies over looting and trafficking.