Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ...

The symbolism of the carved accessories of the woman may identify her as a priestess of Ceres, indicating her involvement in ...

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, intends to give his Easter Sunday blessing, the ...

The London headquarters of financial and media company Bloomberg stands on sacred Roman ground. More than 20 feet below modern street level rests the Temple of Mithras, a cultic site built by ...

Red Nose Day, the BBC’s annual silly night, is now just days away and a star-studded line-up is waiting in the wings to raise money for Comic Relief 2025. The nation will join in on the fun on ...

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

Last year an illustrious collection of sculpture visited the Louvre for the first time. Now that medley of marble has taken its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and settled into the Art ...

A relief of the harbor at Portus dating to the second or third century C.E. Torlonia Foundation / Lorenzo De Masi One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is ...

In order to bolster the struggling British art economy, the UK Treasury has extended the window for fine art and antiques from overseas to enter the country without incurring import duties. The ...

Aranan Tarih Aralığı: 2025-3-2 / 2025-03-03 Aranan Kelime: a relief sculpture is a sculpture where the design projects from a flat surface while a freestanding sculpture is fully three ...