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Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.
"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...
Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...
Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment ... The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture In ancient times, when approaching the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina, one would ...
The Greek poet Kallimachos, meanwhile, described a sculpture of the Egyptian ... In addition to smelling wonderful, Greco-Roman statues were also brightly colored and often draped in jewelry ...