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Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...
But when it comes to ancient Roman statues, being a little broken is almost the norm. Walk around any museum of classical art, and you'll likely see shattered noses, cleaved fingers and an awful ...
Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents ...
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...
“Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” will touch down at the Art Institute of Chicago in May, then open at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum in Septembe ...
The headless statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was looted from the Bubon archaeological site nearly six decades ago. (all photos courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art, unless otherwise noted ...
Vagalinski and the Petrich Historical Museum have been leading excavations ... buried statues like this one, which is a Roman copy of a Greek statue, to preserve them, according to Reuters.