What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

The monumental tomb known as the "Royal Kurgan of Kerch," in the Crimea, is a masterpiece of ancient Greek architecture.

Introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, examining various ancient approaches to power, religion, death and the human body. Analyzes art, architecture, and ...

In a recent study, Dr. Timur Sadykov and his colleagues analyzed the Scythian animal-style artifacts recovered from one of ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

An Ancient Greek public building and extensive collection of marble treasures have been found partially submerged at the site of a now-sunken ancient city—once home to Trojan War warrior Ajax, ...

Wall St. Insights In 2024, an amazing structure was discovered on Crete Greek Revival architecture was a way for architects ...

The monuments and artifacts represented in the slide identification portion of the M.A. comprehensive exam will be those illustrated in these texts. Students should demonstrate advanced knowledge and ...

“The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.” Johann Joachim Winckelmann, founder of modern archeology and art history, praised the Greeks and ...

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...

When thinking of Greek architecture, one might expect to travel to Athens, Greece. To experience a very cool 1964 modern interpretation of Greek Revival architecture our visit to Athens Alabama was ...