The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and ... "Like the sphinx, which is the guardian figure. There's that famous story of the sphinx at the crossroads and having to answer ...

St. Louis and New Orleans—drawing such large crowds that Greek Slave became “arguably the most famous sculpture of the 19th century,” says Lemmey. Several of sculptures toured the United ...