Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of a Tomb in Ancient Pompeii
The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
GlasgowWorld on MSN3d
9 famous paintings you have to see at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, houses one of the most significant and diverse art collections in the UK. As well as being a major cultural landmark, it’s full of memories ...
A visit to the Louvre can be a gastronomic adventure—if you know where to look
The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...
Greek Reporter4d
The Ancient Roman Emperors Who Loved Greece
Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
Psychology Today4d
Greek and Roman Sculptures Were Perfumed
Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...
Miami Herald16d
Mysterious heist of famous portrait solved 70 years later — and the motive was curtains
Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg" shared by British Art Journal Seventy years ... “I feel sure that it never belonged to the famous set in the collection of ...
The Art Newspaper17d
Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
One of the most famous examples of a statue on which traces ... as a myth of whiteness in ancient art has long been perpetuatedImage: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA/picture alliance/dpa In the 20th ...
Sacramento Bee18d
What did ancient Roman artists use to paint Pompeii? New study offers a glimpse
Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans, a study said. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii The ruins of Pompeii, ...
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
Greek Reporter19d
Ancient Greece’s Ionian League: The First Confederation in History
Ephesus was renowned in antiquity for the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and its Odeon, a large-capacity concert hall. Colophon was famous for its wealth and ...