The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

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 ...

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Ever wonder why statues of Greek men are always sporting miniature tinklers? “They have small to very small penises, compared to the average of humanity,” notes art historian Andrew Lear, a specialist ...

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 statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...