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

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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

After centuries of scholarship focusing solely on the shape and form of Greco-Roman sculpture, Brøns is part of what she calls a “sensorial turn,” one aimed at drawing closer to the people ...

The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is ...

The face still presents significant layers of mortar that make full identification difficult, but its features —a carefully sculpted beard and a solemn expression— suggest it could be a Roman deity ..

But the finding about the perfuming of sculptures shows us just how difficult this task is. Generations of art historians specializing in Greek and Roman sculptures have completely missed out on ...

Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and ... She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient ...