Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

The ancient Greek city-state wanted to reinforce the importance of having ‘a balanced life and proper morals’, and to do so, they designed temples based on mathematical proportions, reflecting ...

The ancient temple was built in the mid-5th century B.C. and dedicated to the goddess Athena. iStock Many of the surviving sculptures were removed from the Parthenon in the early 1800s by agents ...

Ancient Greek artifacts are renowned for their cultural, historical, and artistic value. The recently discovered statue is believed to be from the classical period, which spanned the fifth and ...

Landmark shows such as “Gods in Color,” which toured from 2003 to 2015, and “ Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color ” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022 have embodied this era’s ...

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented ...

Seth Pevnick, the Cleveland Museum of Art's curator of ancient Greek and Roman art, describes the museum's recently purchased 5th Century B.C. Stamnos, attributed to the Kleophon Painter.

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 ...

This class is an exploration of art collecting in the ancient world, the heritage of ancient art, and its presentation and preservation for the edification of the viewing public in our modern world.

Before going to St. Petersburg in 2018, Bennett had worked for many years at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he was viewed as a leading U.S. expert in the field of Greek and Roman art.