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In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Sydney Blum's sculptures were lost in the mail, but Sonja Krawesky found them at an Ontario discount store and tracked Blum down.

The modern culture that has taken to Wessely most conclusively is music.

Baton Rouge serves double duty as a college town and Louisiana’s capital. See how the town's vibrant story told through its ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

Classical Greek sculpture incorporated more diverse ... in the Hellenistic period of Greek art was the privatization of art and sculpture. The centralization of government at the time led to ...

Classical art is also easily recognizable from its near-perfect depictions of the human form in life-size and monumental sculpture. Greek artists became increasingly focused on the study of human ...

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The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens, dating to circa 420–410 BC, is a stunning example of classical art. It is housed in the National ...