Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing ...

Phoenix Ancient Art will present a breathtaking exhibition, "Aphrodite and Her Jewelry," celebrating the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, and eternal youth. This enchanting display will take ...

These findings suggest Paros didn’t just supply the raw materials for ancient Greek art—the island was also helping shape the aesthetics for which Greek civilization would be known for millennia.

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...

Aphrodite’s story, sung by ancient Greek poets and set down in some of ... Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Given the goddess’s delight in pleasures of the flesh, it’s unsurprising ...

Researchers also discovered several movable finds, including statues of Aphrodite ... ancient Greek influence is here to stay, with many artists continuing to prioritize the hyper-realistic art ...

immortalized by works such as Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ...

There are many mythic versions of it; it’s hard to divide history from myth, especially in ancient Greece. The travel writer Pausanias wrote that the Greek hero Theseus founded the cult of Aphrodite ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were ...