This is like entering a dream or a Terry Gilliam animation. It does not seem quite real. Some of the greatest classical sculptures in the world have been brought together in the opening section of the ...
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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 discovered in ...
The Pergamon Museum in Berlin houses one of the world’s leading collection of antiquities. But World War II badly damaged the building—bullet holes from large-caliber machine guns still pockmark ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1549): This amazing figurine, known as the Baker Dancer, is from the stunning show called “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World,” at the Metropolitan Museum in ...
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 ...
Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...
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 ...
If you ask today’s average American to name an image of a horse in ancient Greek culture, a likely response could be the Trojan Horse, the flying stallion Pegasus or the equestrian parade from the ...
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