Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...
The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...
Piranesi’s powerful rendition of Doric architecture. (Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center) In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of Paestum on ...
An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds. The dig, which ...
When one Greek expatriate commissions another to create a cultural center in Shanghai to celebrate their homeland’s culture, it becomes an obsession, and a goal that must impeccably deliver the vision ...
A 3,300-year-old Mycenaean building in Greece known as the Melathron of Gla reveals advanced architectural planning.
Travel Weekly’s Kate Rice is on vacation in Greece with her family. Her second dispatch follows. Click to read Kate’s first dispatch. To step foot on the Acropolis is to wonder: Who were these guys?