Greek art evolved to reflect the changing world of the Hellenistic period, exploring drama, realism, emotion, and decorative effects (1). The most important changes in the pottery of Greece during the ...

Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...

The Hellenistic period begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., after leading expansions of his empire from Greece and Asia Minor through Egypt and the Persian Empire and as far ...

Students should read all the required texts listed below under General Art & Archaeology. In consultation with their advisor, they will also select at least three areas for closer study, for each of ...

Next week, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will open one of the most ambitious exhibitions of Greek art in the museum’s history, ‘Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient ...

Head of an Apoxyomenos (2nd-1st century BCE), Greek bronze (courtesy Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas/Scala, Firenze) (click to enlarge) ...

More than a mere blockbuster, this show is a radical and wholly rewarding rethinking of the art we call “Greek.” (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Through July 17.) ...

Fewer than 200 bronzes have survived from the Hellenistic and Classical ages, and about a quarter of those are on display, including some of the most moving and celebrated artworks from any age.

ART REVIEW the metropolitan museum of art photos Athena Parthenos is 13 feet high and is a smaller copy of her statue that stood in Athens. Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient ...