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The island of Jeju in South Korea is home to the Greek Mythology Museum where visitors can immerse themselves in the world of ...
Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.
Ancient sculptures reveal their true colors 07:00. The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too New research suggests that sculptures were perfumed with sweet-smelling fragrances such as rose and beeswax ...
Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today. About a quarter of those are gathered in an exhibit at the National ...
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 ...
Ancient Greek sculpture has been admired for millennia, serving as a key artistic point of reference. For many, the Parthenon Sculptures are its most striking example.
Art What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? Antiquities reproduced in vivid color, now on view in ‘Chroma’ exhibition at the Met, may look garish to modern eyes.
If you thought ancient Greek sculptures were a uniform white, think again. In their heyday, they were painted in a rainbow of colors.
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually, Brøns writes in her article. "Such scents could function as a way of creating a sensorial experience and even facilitating ...