The city thrived under Roman control after the Roman–Seleucid ... who are also credited with creating the famous Laocoön and His Sons sculpture. In Greek mythology, Scylla is a fearsome sea ...

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 ...

While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago, the statues were brilliantly colored and ... of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture is influenced ...

Here’s how it works. A girthy stone penis sculpture recently uncovered at an ancient Roman site in Spain measures about 18 inches (46 centimeters) long, which could make it the largest Roman ...

“I would say the Brinkmann reconstructions are quite suggestive of the once defining, colorful and material-based aesthetics of Greek and Roman sculpture.” As Hollein, the Met’s ...

Hundreds of remnants of ancient Roman life — including colored dice, rain gutter decorations depicting mythological figures, and burial offerings 3,000 years old — have long been hidden from ...

Torlonia Foundation/Photo by Lorenzo De Masi Share Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago would be notable, because 44 years have passed since the ...

The knowledge that the Greek and Roman sculpture was brightly painted isn ... architectural segments came out of the ground vibrantly colored. And in museums around the globe, hints of color ...

An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall by amateur archaeologists. The symbolic find of the winged goddess was discovered in a reused pile ...

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 ...