NEW YORK — To add context to an exhibition of Hellenistic art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reproduced a copy of the famous "Alexander Mosaic," which once enlivened the floor of an ...

Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...

When Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire and hauled off the treasures of its royal capitals, he unleashed perhaps the greatest economic stimulus package of all time. The city ...

The glory of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s legendary Museum Island is the eponymous Great Altar excavated by the German engineer Carl Humann between 1878 and 1886. With the permission of the Ottoman ...

Preface / Anna Kouremenos -- Foreword / Sir John Boardman -- Introduction / Roberto Rossi -- Alcibiades, "a classical archetype for Alexander" / Michael Vickers -- Hybridisation of palatial ...

The modern term “Hellenistic art” refers to works produced across a vast and greatly expanded Greek-speaking world between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the foundation of the Roman ...

Introduction: characteristics of Hellenistic art -- Greek sculpture of the fourth century B.C. -- Lysippos and the early Hellenistic age -- Atticism in the late fourth and early third centuries B.C. - ...

Introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, examining various ancient approaches to power, religion, death and the human body. Analyzes art, architecture, and ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street. 212-535-7710 or metmuseum.org. Today through July 17. Schedule: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday through ...