Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, the world has admired the stunning beauty of ancient Greek and Roman ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than ... unguents,” as well as “frankincense and burning perfumes.” The ...

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

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

The Roman conquest of Greece has been an integral part of the long and rich history of this proud nation in the Eastern ...

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

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and ... traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white ...

Torlonia Collection, Rome. Unlike the Beaux-Arts spaces where Greek and Roman art is displayed, say, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, these spaces are clean and spare with a subtle ...

Generations of art historians specializing in Greek and Roman sculptures have completely missed out on what seems to be a central feature of the experience these sculptures were supposed to trigger.