Greek Reporter8d
Honoring Women: Renowned Greek Sculptor Unveils Work at UN
Greek-born sculptor George Petrides presented Greece's UN representative with a sculpture of an ancient Greek female figure ...
Greek Reporter2d
Was Golden Ratio the Ancient Greek Secret to Harmony?
Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...
The Public's Radio3d
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
IFLScience on MSN2d
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled Divine
Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...
Archaeology11d
Ancient Greek Statues Smelled of Perfume
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, ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century ...
The Hollywood Reporter26d
From Fabulous to Phallic: How 13 Artists Reimagined the Oscar
Known for working in blue-and-white ceramics, she let the gold flow for this sculpture, a tribute to a winged Greek goddess. “Nike was known for flying around battles to locate victors,” she ...
The Washington Post28d
A masterpiece by the most celebrated tattoo artist in U.S. history
August Coleman named “Battleship Kate,” a major work of folk art, for a sex worker and swindler with head-to-toe tattoos. This tattooed figure at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts stands two feet ...
BBC8d
Giant Sun sculpture lights up 18th Century hall
The Helios sculpture, named after the ancient Greek god of the Sun, is shining bright in Seaton Delaval Hall, near Seaton Sluice, Northumberland. The 7m (22ft) artwork took about eight months to ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture In ancient times, when approaching the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina, one would have seen a sculpture of a young archer, painted in ...
Observer25d
Cy Twombly’s Decades of Poetry and Play Captivate at Gagosian
Standing in front of a Twombly sculpture or painting is to become absorbed ... a fragment of Sappho’s poetry, Greek myth, seashells, Roman statuary and shards, a cloudy day, junk, the Baroque ...