Greek Reporter21d
The Met Returns Stolen Ancient Bronze Griffin’s Head to Greece
The cast-bronze piece was discovered in Olympia in the Peloponnese in 1914 and was acquired by the Joseph Brummer Gallery in 1936 from an Athens dealer. It ended up at The Met in 1972. Credit: Greek ...
The New York Times22d
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was ...
Greek Reporter27d
Scientists Decode Golden Ratio of Ancient Greek Riace Bronze Statues
The research concluded that the design of this particular bronze statue indeed stems from the search for beauty as divine proportion, and revealed that even a relatively small detail such as the ...