An ancient Greek art form, preserved by catastrophe. Clip: 1/25/2016 | 6m 2s. Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that two ancient marble sculptures from the famed collection of the Pergamon Museum (Antikensammlung ...

In this video, we look back at an extraordinary exhibition of bronze statues from the Hellenistic age – a period that began over 2,000 years ago. “The Hellenistic is the age where we get vivid ...

Fewer than 200 bronzes have survived from the Hellenistic and Classical ages, and about a quarter of those are on display, including some of the most moving and celebrated artworks from any age.

The Hellenistic Mediterranean represents the era when a humanistic heart began to beat vigorously within Western art. Before, in Classical Greece, art promoted a ritualized, sometimes remote, even ...

The Hellenistic period spans nearly 300 years, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to Augustus Caesar’s triumph over Cleopatra and Mark Antony in 31 BC.

Alexander wasn’t Greek, but as a student of Aristotle he adored Athens, a passion he imposed on those he conquered. By the time he died at 32, the love of art and knowledge had taken root from ...