Praxiteles (active ca. 370-330 BC) was one of the leading Greek sculptors of the 4th century BC. His style, refined and graceful, greatly influenced the art of his own time and the succeeding epochs. Praxiteles was probably the son of Kephisodotos, an...

375-340 B.C. Greek sculptor who is famous for his marble carvings of mythological gods and goddesses. What made him unique as a sculptor is the way he positioned the bodies of his figures. Rather than posing them in traditional rigid, face-forward,...

Praxiteles (Ancient Greek: Πραξιτέλης, English IPA: /prækˈsɪtɨliːz/) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a...

Imagine an exhibition dedicated to Poussin or Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London or Washington that consisted entirely of copies apart from one work attributed to the artist. That may sound like a joke but it is the case with the...

Revered as the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece, Olympia in the western Peloponnese hosted the ancient Olympic Games for more than 1,000 years after they started in 776 B.C.Ruined temples of Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, and his wife Hera still stand on...