Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has not always been like that. Based mainly on written evidence of various ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century ...

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

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

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Perga’s was once a key sculpture-producing location for ... Experts believe the statue is likely a Roman imagining of the Greek mythical figures created during the second century A.D., when ...

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.