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

One of the most famous examples of a statue on ... and Adolf Hitler particularly praised the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, and the idea of white classical statues was useful ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted ... olive oil was regularly applied to the famous Statue of Zeus at Olympia ...

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

A spectacular stone head, possibly representing a bearded male deity, has been discovered in the archaeological area of the ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Of course, there are lots of places to eat and shop, but you wouldn't want to miss some of the most famous ... of art that likely hasn't been seen intact since the days of ancient Rome: 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.