"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 ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

The Roman statue discovered at Burghley House in England after being unearthed, left, and on display in the mansion, right. The marble sculpture is thought to date to the first or second centuries.

But the museum’s just-opened show in this realm, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” deserves particular attention because of the sheer beauty and ...

The sculpture is believed to be a Roman copy of an original Greek bronze ... a curator in the Museums' stone and marble restoration workshop. The restoration project was paused for about two ...

A marble sculpture of the Greek god Hermes ... It turned out to be an 1,800-year-old Roman sculpture. But that wasn’t the only surprise — the mysterious headless lady’s statuesque body ...

An installation view of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a ...

Courtesy the Halsted A&A Foundation The statue’s presentation at Wrightwood 659 sets the stage for “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” a highly ...

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