Torlonia Foundation/Photo by Lorenzo De Masi Share Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago would be notable, because 44 years have passed since the ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has not always been like that. Based mainly on written evidence of various ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands ... Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and ...

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While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient ... after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple ...