A selection of 15 pieces from billionaire Leonard Stern’s personal collection of 161 marble figurines and vessels, all hailing from Greece’s Early Bronze Age (3200 BC to 2000 BC), has gone on view at ...
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The three little marble figures were the easy part. They were about thirty centimetres tall, a kilogram each, pale and ...
Early Cycladic marble female figure (2600–2400 BCE), currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The characters, and more so the plot, are ...
In the Cyclades islands between the Hellenic culture of mainland Greece and the Minoan culture of Crete, the people of the Cycladic culture (ca. 3200–ca. 1050 BCE) were prolific sculptors, producing ...
Visitors view works of art at the media preview of "Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay" at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, June 19, 2019. A rare exhibition about Pablo Picasso and his ...
From the March 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The day before visiting the Museum of Cycladic Art, I climbed the Acropolis. The late January light was lively, the air filled with low ...
A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York — a transformative event. By Roberta Smith New York City has added another jewel to its glittering ...
“The eye must travel,” said fashion editor Diana Vreeland — in this case to Athens, where the Museum of Cycladic Art hosts “Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues”, the South African-born, Amsterdam-based ...
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 ...
“Repulsively ugly” wrote a German archaeologist, Paul Wolters, of his finds on one of the Greek islands in 1891. By the artistic canons of his day, the classical Greek figure was the ideal of feminine ...
Artist Creates Surreal Stamp to Honor Ukrainian Victory – Ukrainian painter Yuriy Shapoval was tapped by Ukraine’s postal service to create a new stamp, in an edition of 7 million, celebrating last ...
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