PRINCETON, NJ — Too many Greek vase jokes are lost in translation. For example, this duel between Achilles and Hector looks serious. But tragicomic ironies abound in ancient epic. The Trojan war ...
“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections opens at The College of William & Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art on August 18, 2012. The exhibit features vases on loan from ...
Ancient Greek vases have been found in tombs, sanctuaries, and other kinds of deposits in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, the Levant, Spain, and other lands surrounding and beyond the Mediterranean Sea (1) ...
As Germany returns an antiquity looted during the war to Greece, Christie’s auction house in New York scraps auction of Greek vases linked to convicted trafficker in stolen treasures. Photo: Greek ...
ATHENS: Greece on Monday reclaimed an ancient funerary vase found in the possession of a Swiss art dealer after it had been illegally exported, the Greek culture ministry said. More than one metre ...
The characters on the vase's surface were likely painted in the 1990s. The Parthenon Temple at the top of the Acropolis hill in Athens. Photo by Angelos Tzortsinis/AFP via Getty Images. Not only had ...
ATHENS, Greece — A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's grandson.
Megan Aikman: As of the spring of 2005 Megan Aikman had just recently graduated with her Masters from the University of Colorado at Boulder. During her two and a half years in Boulder, Megan focused ...
The striking, nearly 5-foot tall Dipylon Amphora, from approximately 700 BC, is a masterpiece of the art of Ancient Greek ...
Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...
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