For centuries, the stark white marble statues ... In Sicily, for instance, a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

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

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

"A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived ... found traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white were ...

But the museum’s just-opened show in this realm, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ... A copy of a then-500-year-old Greek sculpture, the modeling of this unusually intact ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues ... many colors. Greek City Times reports that groundbreaking new research reveals that many Greco-Roman sculptures ...

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 ...