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Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each (...)

This stunning book uses 21st-century technology to reveal the original colors of ancient sculpture. When Renaissance artists sought to imitate ancient sculpture, their medium of choice was pure, white marble, but little did they know that the works they emulated were originally painted in dazzling (...)

Die Glyptothek, hailed by many as the most beautiful museum in Munich , possesses outstanding works of Greek and Roman sculpture. Among them are the Apollo of Tenea, the Munich Kouros, the pediment sculptures of the Aphaia Temple on Aegina, the Rondanini Medusa, the Grave Relief of Mnesarete, the (...)