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A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...
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Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For decades, Britain ...
ROME — The greatest challenge of mounting an exhibition about the famous ancient Greek artist Phidias (c. 480–c. 430 BCE) is that not a single surviving piece of work can be attributed to him with ...
“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 2023 fall season at the Cleveland Museum of Art is not going exactly as planned. Ohio’s biggest art museum has been gearing up for the opening on Sunday, Sept. 10, of a major ...