Smithsonian Magazine22d
The Met Returns Stolen Seventh-Century B.C.E. Bronze Griffin Head to Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in ...
Greek Reporter23d
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 ...
Greek Reporter29d
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 ...
Le Monde.fr1mon
Camille Claudel bronze sculpture sold for €3.1 million at auction
The bronze he found sold for €3.1 million ($3.2 million) at an auction house in the city of Orleans, south of Paris, an AFP reporter there said. It had been estimated at €1.5 million to €2 ...
Autoblog6mon
Jeep gives Cherokee its yin and yang with Sageland and Urbane concepts
In one corner we have the Sageland concept pictured above, drawing its inspiration from Shangri-La with an Ivory Peal tri-coat and bronze trim ... Meanwhile the Urbane concept (pictured right ...
Bennetts9mon
Knox Urbane Pro review | Mesh motorcycle jacket with Level 2 armour
Knox describes the Urbane Pro Mk3 as ‘the most versatile core garment for any rider, thanks to the fact that its large areas of polyester mesh in the less critical areas, along with stretch nylon at ...