Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
Experts think the artwork is a Roman replica of a lost Greek bronze statue created by the sculptor Leochares around 330 B.C.E. The sculpted figure is celebrated for its natural stance, curled hair ...
Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...
which have cuttings meant to hold bronze statues in place by means of lead plugs”, says Seth Pevnick, the museum’s curator of Greek and Roman art. “So, we were able to compare the physical ...
A trove of ancient artifacts was revealed by Egyptian archaeologists this week and includes 150 bronze statues and 250 coffins dating back 2,500 years. The treasures were recently found at the ...
The cast-bronze sculpture, which has been on display at the entrance to the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries since 1999, was previously in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
In 2023, the New York County Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, or NYATU, had seized a statue in the collection of ...