These famous European statues have been given ... The Winged Victory of Samothrace is an ancient Greek sculpture. It represents a winged woman (the Goddess Nike) dressed in a typical Greek costume.
Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...
Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.
Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens ... stone carvings of famous battles from Greek myths. The Greeks were really good at making statues too. Sculptors carved lifelike ...
The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures ...
A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were impregnated with perfumes and aromatic substances, an aspect that ...