classical antiquity

February 8, 2014
After five years in storage , the Riace Bronzes are back on display at the Museo Archeologico di Reggio Calabria.

January 27, 2014
Giovanni Nistri, credited with overseeing the return of the famous Euphronios krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Italy, has been appointed to head the “Great Pompeii Project”—a €105m campaign to preserve the ancient site.

October 23, 2013
gettypubs : Getty Publications is excited to announce that The Restoration of Ancient Bronzes: Naples and Beyond is now available online for free!

September 13, 2013
Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua, where he had served the Gonzaga dukes as court artist for almost half a century.