Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in ...

Torlonia Foundation/Photo by Lorenzo De Masi Share Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago would be notable, because 44 years have passed since the ...

(Andrew Medichini/AP) Construction in Rome, from ancient buildings to restoration projects today, has often involved the reuse and recycling of materials, said Renata Cristina Mazzantini, an art ...

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically ... persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body ...

The sale will be held live at our Central London showroom (63-64 Margaret Street, W1W 8SW) and online via the Apollo Art Auctions platform. Items in the auction come from a vast range of cultures, ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans ... But what materials did ancient Roman artists use to create these masterpieces?

"And you find yourself right in ancient Rome, in a Roman temple." From 17th-Century Villa Borghese to the Capitoline, the city’s oldest art gallery, Rome has no shortage of museums displaying a ...