Ancient sculptures are beautiful and put on display the incredible talent and hard work that their sculptors put into them. They are visually impressive, and if you are lucky enough to be able to ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed what they believe to be a unique piece of human creativity — an ancient sand sculpture of a stingray. Initially mistaken for a ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century A.D., acquired a head by the great baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fusion of old ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute: What’s the right place for some of the finest ancient ...

The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...

ATHENS, Greece — For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute: what is the right place for some of the finest ancient ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...