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 ...

Every year, Athens draws millions of history buffs to the sun-bleached stones of its ancient temples. The city’s legendary landmarks—the Acropolis with its iconic Parthenon, the Agora with its deep ...

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 ...

Milette Gaifman, an international expert on Greek art and its use in religious practice, has been appointed the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art, effective July 1. She is ...

History has long pitted Persian and Greek societies as moral opposites—the former, a culture of hedonists, and the latter defined by no-frills self discipline. A new exhibition titled “Luxury and ...

Before traveling to Greece over the summer to study abroad, Shaylyn Sprague already had an idea in mind for her final project. She was interested in Circe, a goddess in Greek mythology who Sprague ...