While the Parthenon Marbles are the most famous case of looted Greek antiquities, the story of the Caryatid of Eleusis is surreal.

Greek archaeologists excavating a massive Alexander the Great-era burial mound complex at Kasta Hill, in the northern Greek region of Serres, made the exciting discovery of two large ...

The studio has been a favourite subject of artists for, well, centuries. From Jan Vermeer’s small, exquisite, 17th-century The Art of Painting, populated only by the artist and his allegorically ...

19.5 x 5 cm. (7.7 x 2 in.) Diego Giacometti : Bestaire, exhibition catalogue, L'Arc en Seine, Paris, 24 September - 20 December 1997, p. 17 and 64-65 Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti : Sculpteur ...

Some of Greece's most celebrated beauties are getting a facelift. And after almost 2,500 years it's not surprising they're looking a little weather-beaten. The Caryatid statues, which until the late ...

One of two former caryatids depicting a standing young woman holding a scrolled diploma at her waist with her proper right hand. With her proper left hand she gathers the folds of her long robes and ...