Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...
IFLScience

Why Do Ancient Greek Statues Have Such Small Penises?

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
PBS

Rick Steves' Europe: Art of Ancient Greece

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...
Seattle Times

With eye on British Museum, Greece welcomes back ancient art

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece on Friday welcomed the return of ancient artifacts from the Acropolis, furthering a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures taken from ...