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

The recently restored Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome features ten angels holding symbols of Christ's Passion, creating a profound ...

The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous marble buildings, built with superb skill to enormous scale. It is impressive now – it would have been even more impressive 2,000 years ago.

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the lost city of Perga, ...

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

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

The finding could provide valuable insights into the cultural dynamics of Late Antique Rome (4th–6th centuries AD), a transitional period between the pagan world and Christianity. The reuse of ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful ... and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.