"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty. But these sculptures, now frozen in monochrome, looked dramatically ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated as construction material at the time of the ...

Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs of white marble to ... evidence that in ancient Greece and Rome, it was common to ...

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Life and immortality. Everything we ask of art is in the eyes of these women, just two of the 58 extraordinary works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture ... But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are special, and viewers who ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...