These characteristics are most commonly seen on vases exhibiting the most popular themes of either funerary ritual or theatrical imitation on larger vessels. An Apulian volute krater now in the ...

Last year New York’s Metropolitan Museum sent back to Italy the Euphronios krater, the great sixth-century BC painted vase it had acquired under dubious circumstances in 1972 for a million bucks.

The 19th-century art restorer Raffaele Gargiulo was so good at reconstructing Greek vases, one antiquarian called it a "dangerous perfection for knowledge." Filling in broken gaps with his own ...

Italy proudly celebrated the return on Friday of a prized 2,500-yeard old vase it says was looted and sold illegally to New York's Metropolitan Museum more than 30 years ago.