The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has recreated the Canon of Polykleitos, a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture.

Archaeologists discovered the roughly 2,500-year-old sculpture of a young man while conducting excavations at Sardis in ...

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

A workshop in Florence reveals the mysteries of classical sculpture. Our correspondent gets hands-on to see it all take shape. These sculptures take shape in the hands of fifth-generation owner ...

Ancient Roman statues were often designed to accommodate interchangeable heads so that they could depict different individuals.

Color perception is relative, optically and culturally. Take, for instance, the shade of Homer’s wine-dark sea: It depends on who is tossing about upon it, where, and when. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...

“There are few subjects in the field of ancient art that have aroused such heated and prolonged controversy as polychromy in Greek sculpture,” observed the curator Gisela Richter in 1944, preparing ...