Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

There is already significant interest from a major U.S. museum, says David Aaron gallery.

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Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

After the passing of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., the generals that succeeded him fought one another for control of the empire he left behind. One of the most brutal episodes of this ...

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a ...

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...

Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries were greeted by an enormous funerary vase, a creation of the ninth-century B.C., depicting in somber ocher and ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...