Experts believe that the study of 700-year-old handwriting may have revealed the true identity of leading Byzantine painter ...

A study reveals that Ephesus' main painting material, cinnabar, was imported from Spain, offering new insights into its trade ...

Police say three people have been arrested in northern Greece on suspicion of systematically counterfeiting artworks by leading Greek painters and selling them as originals through an online auction h ...

The current national identity of Greece is significantly affected by the Byzantine past of its territories and its people.

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle — the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter ...

But nothing is known of his life, and scholars now believe Panselinos was just a nickname that eventually supplanted the real name of the man for whom it was coined - likely Ioannis Astrapas, from the ...

The two paintings, shown by police on Tuesday, were seized in a 2012 raid on the National Gallery in Athens A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen nine years ago during a heist at a Greek ...

They brought incredible stories to life with drama, music and dance. So, in ancient Greece, theatres were everywhere. Every town had a big bowl-shaped arena, usually on a hillside, where thousands ...

This sparky survey offers a critical review of the foreignness of Greek art, focusing in particular on its infatuation with the naked human form, which it sets in the context of the latest literary ...

Heirs and descendants of a Jew who allegedly owned a valuable Vincent Van Gogh painting have sued The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Greek shipping tycoon, claiming they profited from the looting of ...