AP PHOTOS: Greek workshop recreates ancient masterpieces
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It might be the closest an artist can get to time travel: Painstakingly recreating the sculptures of Greece's ancient masters.
A group of artists working for Athens' Culture Ministry has the exclusive right to make the officially certified copies, which are meant for sale in Greek museum shops.
"The standard is very high. And every artist tries to emulate what was done by the artist in ancient times," supervisor Stelios Gavalas, a sculptor by training, told The Associated Press. "For us, it is a very big honor to have daily contact with works of the great artists of antiquity.