Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

In Greek mythology, Hera was the goddess of women, marriage and married life. She was the queen of the gods by her marriage to Zeus. In art, she was generally depicted wearing a crown and a peplos ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, is one of the major Ionian League city-states of Ancient Greece. Credit: Benh Lieu Song CC BY-SA- 3.0 Greece’s Ionian League, also known as the Ionian Dodecapolis, ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, was repatriated to Greece from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...

From stages to studios, LA-based New Zealander Kiel Tutin’s work takes him all over the world – how does he handle it? He tells Emma Gleason exactly that. There’s a contingent of high-flying Kiwis ...

A mosaic, now in the Louvre, originally from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, shows a Greek rider seizing the cap of an Amazon warrior. Credit: Public Domain Ancient Greek women had few rights in ...