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

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

Cleopatra returned to Egypt as Caesar’s great-nephew and heir, Augustus, teamed up with Marc Antony and Lepidus to fight Caesar’s assassins. By 42 BC, Augustus and his allies had gained the ...

It was quickly followed by “Heroides” (the Heroines), “Medicamina Faciei” (the Art of Beauty), “Ars ... the moral conservatism of the Emperor Augustus. Shortly after Augustus exiled ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

This portrait sculpture of Tenby born artist Augustus John was made by Italian sculptress Fiore de Henriquez at Fryern Court in 1952. Whilst she was working on the bust John could not keep his ...

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...

For details, check out this extraordinary sculpture, which looks back to a fiasco from 375 years ago. The great American Beaux-Arts sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned in the 1880s to ...