New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is the great beneficiary of that project. Fully a third of the some 265 objects in its extraordinary exhibition, "Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the ...

Greek art evolved to reflect the changing world of the Hellenistic period, exploring drama, realism, emotion, and decorative effects (1). The most important changes in the pottery of Greece during the ...

The Great Altar was brute power masquerading as fine art. Today, it epitomises the opulence and ambition of Hellenistic art, which is also attested in the Met’s show, albeit on a smaller scale ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a Hellenistic period sculptor's workshop on the island of Paros containing life-size ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” exhibition includes a marble bust that portrays him with vivid realism: his fleshy neck ...

One of the few elements capable of facing the passage of time is art. Regardless of the form, art always endures and ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic ... and will linger as a striking example of Hellenistic marble after its close. We hope you enjoyed this article!

Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...