The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures, according to a ...

almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous marble buildings, built with ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue ... fully assembled, the sculpture stood at just ...

Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its ... "When you make a sculpture some materials can flake apart, whereas this one is pretty homogeneous," master ...

The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture ... a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically ... of Ancient Greco-Roman Sculpture," was published in ...