Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

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

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

Generations of art historians specializing in Greek and Roman sculptures have completely missed out on what seems to be a central feature of the experience these sculptures were supposed to trigger.