The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... Guy Devreux, a curator at the Vatican Museums’ stone and marble restoration workshop, tells Reuters ...

“A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in stone ... the goddess of the hunt, was ritually ...

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich To find out what the Greek gods looked like ... leaving the stone of most of their statues its natural color. Thus they helped pave the way for neo-Classicism ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue ...

These gods were ... another famous Greek hero, Perseus, killed a monster called Medusa. Medusa was a Gorgon who had venomous snakes instead of hair. She could turn people to stone just by looking ...

The original Artemision God is a classical Greek sculpture recovered from the sea in 1928 and is one of the highlights of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The replica was gifted to ...