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Ancient Sculpture, Seen Through a Prism. December 20, 2004. ... An ascetic aesthetic, practiced by sober and tasteful Greek and Roman sculptors who flourished more than two millenniums ago. ...

Art Bites 119: Ancient Roman Sculpture, Portrait Busts, and Realism. Clip | 3m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts.

Think of an ancient empire and you’re probably picturing an iconic site like the Acropolis in Athens, or Rome's famous forum.

A sculpture known as the Maiden of Vulci, mid-1st century, Roman, late Republican period. (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation) Statuette of Artemis Ephesia, 2nd century ...

The Kimbell Art Museum will host its first exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture in its 52-year history. And the exhibit is a really big catch. “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

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Archaeologists have recently uncovered an 1,800-year-old sculpture depicting an ancient hybrid deity at the site of a Roman fort in Germany. The sandstone artifact came to light during excavations ...

Due diligence in Stuttgart recently unearthed a stone sculpture that was actually part of an ancient Roman monument discovered at the same site more than a century ago. For the past few months ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An ancient Roman sculpture is making its U.S. debut in Kansas City. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art says in a release that the red-marble "Fauno rosso" is on view for the ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century A.D., acquired a head by the great baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fusion of ...