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Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection
When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...
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Remains of Ancient Roman Wall Paintings Found in Spain
Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...
Cleveland Museum of Art to display looted ancient statue before return to Turkey
A statue that tests conclude was likely present at Sebasteion in the ancient city of Bubon, Turkey will depart the Cleveland ...
In Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the harpies, and why did they stink so much?
Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...
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Ten essential Caravaggio paintings to see in Rome
The painting serves as an allegory of alchemy ... Caravaggio dresses him as an ancient Roman soldier, breaking from his usual contemporary clothing. A towering horse dominates the frame, its ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically ... persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body ...