Fewer than 200 bronzes have survived from the Hellenistic and Classical ages, and about a quarter of those are on display, including some of the most moving and celebrated artworks from any age.

Greek art evolved to reflect the changing world of the Hellenistic period, exploring drama, realism, emotion, and decorative effects (1). The most important changes in the pottery of Greece during the ...

Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era survive today. Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today ...

Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...

Archaeologists uncoverεδ a Hellenistic-era Thracian warrior tomb and sanctuary in Bulgaria, shedding light on elite burial ...

The Hellenistic period begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., after leading expansions of his empire from Greece and Asia Minor through Egypt and the Persian Empire and as far ...

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 ...

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 ...

Examines Greek architecture in context, from the ninth century B.C.E. into the Hellenistic period, considering the use of space, both in religious and in civic settings, and using texts as well as ...