The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to return a 7th-century bronze head of a griffin to Greece. This follows new provenance research that suggests the artifact was probably stolen from ...

The imposing, restored tower of Panachrantou Monastery has been transformed into “Art Reliquary – a gallery devoted to spiritual and contemporary creativity.” View on euronews ...

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

Athens – Introducing modern art to a culture brought up on marble columns and the galloping friezes of the Parthenon would appear to be a daunting and thankless task, but Katerina Koskinas, the ...

Let us not forget that Europe began in Greece. The idea of the European continent as a cultural unity dates back to ancient Greece in more ways than one. For a start, the Hellenes were the first ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

A visitor looks at exhibits during a media preview of an exhibition of ancient Greece and Rome art and culture at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, June 14, 2023. An exhibition of ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Artwork criticising international response to country’s debt crisis has flourished amid economic turmoil and social hardship. Jon Henley meets the artists As a fraught and worn-out Greece careered ...

Global interest in the health benefits of the arts is gaining momentum with more governments recognising that creativity ...