Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections opens at The College of William & Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art on August 18, 2012. The exhibit features vases on loan from ...

TOLEDO, Ohio - We don't know his name, but wow, the guy could paint. The Berlin Painter, a master of ancient Greek vase painting, has thrilled scholars and art lovers since the early 20 th century, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the exhibitors at this year’s Tefaf art and antiques fair in Maastricht were invited to propose displays ...

PRINCETON, NJ — Too many Greek vase jokes are lost in translation. For example, this duel between Achilles and Hector looks serious. But tragicomic ironies abound in ancient epic. The Trojan war ...

The 2,500-year-old vase showing the Sirens and Ulysses An ancient Greek vase on loan from the British Museum is the highlight of a new exhibition in Hull. Sirens, Women and the Sea is being shown at ...

FROM the moment they were dug out of their forgotten tombs early in the 19th century, ancient Greek vases moved art lovers to lyrical expressions of delight. One Grecian urn inspired John Keats to ...

The vase, which was displayed for more than two decades in the Greco-Roman galleries of the museum, is a vividly painted bell krater depicting Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and creative ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

The characters on the vase's surface were likely painted in the 1990s. The Parthenon Temple at the top of the Acropolis hill in Athens. Photo by Angelos Tzortsinis/AFP via Getty Images. Not only had ...

Ancient Greek vases have been found in tombs, sanctuaries, and other kinds of deposits in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, the Levant, Spain, and other lands surrounding and beyond the Mediterranean Sea (1) ...