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 ...

Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era survive today. Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.) ...

Both of those strands of Hellenistic tradition as appropriated by Jewish philosophers like Philo, did, however, have an impact on Christians of a later generation who tried to make sense of Jesus ...

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 ...