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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...