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A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the lost city of Perga, ...
But when it comes to ancient Roman statues, being a little broken is almost the norm. Walk around any museum of classical art, and you'll likely see shattered noses, cleaved fingers and an awful ...
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...
The Kimbell Art Museum will host its first exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture in its 52-year history. And the exhibit is a ...
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 ...
The Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., is one of two U.S. institutions to host the Torlonia Foundation’s exhibition “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia ...
Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents ...
The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures ...
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain ... who specializes in Greek and Roman art history and was not involved in the study ...