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"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...
The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.
In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas ... Some, such as Hadrian’s, at Tivoli, have yielded marble statues, frescoes and ornate architecture, evidence of the luxuries enjoyed ...
The conversion—one of the last projects that the Iraqi-British architect worked on before dying—wraps a landmarked structure in Rome with a futuristic second skin.
The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan ... The niches were lined with marble and appear to have had doors; this is where the books would have ...
The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...