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-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

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 ...

Robinson “encouraged the acquisition of sculptures that still bore paint traces,” the Met writes, and Richter co-published a 1944 paper about efforts to determine the original colors of such ...

Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were ...

And these sculptures were often set in temples to the gods or as memorials. When people saw them, they would have immediately understood the different threads of story and myth they allude to.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Dozens of unique and colorful works of art are coming to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art as part of an extraordinary gift from a Greek billionaire.