NEW YORK — To add context to an exhibition of Hellenistic art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reproduced a copy of the famous "Alexander Mosaic," which once enlivened the floor ...

A major new Met exhibit shows the breadth and richness of Hellenistic art. Prepare for gold-plated head-dresses, and two meter-tall vases. Former Travel Editor The Hellenistic period inspired awe ...

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 ...

And yet, the Hellenistic legacy is still slightly suspect, too flamboyant and overwrought if judged by the standards of Athens at its apex of power. An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art ...

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 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 ...

We'll see Greek temples in Sicily and finish with art from Alexander the Great's vast Hellenistic empire. The first glimmers of a truly European civilization emerged here on the sunny islands of ...

Eight years of it have given her a comfortable income, scrapbooks full of superlatives in three languages and last spring a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens.