A painter who encountered Weddell on his Grand Tour of Rome once remarked that the collector had “[bought] such a quantity of pictures ... to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman ...
Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...
A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...
Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...
The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled laborers’ production of marble statues, exporting high-quality work across the empire. The ancient city (located in ...
Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...
researchers found another nearly 2-metre-tall statue of a woman with features from the time of Roman emperor Severus, who ruled from 193AD to 211AD. “According to the initial findings ...
A North American tour of Roman sculptures from the Torlonia Collection—considered to be the finest group of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands—begins on 15 March at the Art ...
Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced that a marble statue of Hermes had been uncovered at Aspendos, an ...
Greco-Roman art has been studied for centuries through ... jewelry, and fragrances on statues, a practice that reinforced the ...