If the high and mighty gable ends of roofs and pediments "peak" your interest, then you will enjoy the photographs and narrative for this month's article. The development of the pediment and gable ...

President of China, Xi Jinping arrives in London, 19 October 2015 (via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Flickrstream) The British Museum in London, which for decades evaded the Greek government’s ...

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...

At first glance, it may be tempting to view “Rodin and the art of ancient Greece” at the British Museum, the first exhibition in which Phidias’s Parthenon Marbles have been shown alongside the work of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This engraving, taken from a 1683 ...

What does one think of when they draw up a picture of Ancient Greece in their mind? For most, including several of my Classics graduate cohort, it's wooden ships on stony beaches, narrow streets ...

ATHENS, Greece — The Acropolis sculptures survived on the ancient hill in Athens for 2,500 years despite war, weather and looting. But their remaining days there are numbered. Three hundred marble ...