When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

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 ...

the painting stretches across three walls, showcasing maenads, satyrs, and ancient hunting rituals. The artwork suggests that initiates engaged in wilderness rituals, despite a Roman ban on ...

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

Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the lost city of Perga, ...

Notable results include the identification of the first known use of a new gray color in Pompeian art. The presence of barite and alunite in the pigments provides the first evidence of the use of ...

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