Renaissance artists thought statues from antiquity were bare marble and fashioned their works accordingly, thus helping to create the myth. The colors on most ancient statues had faded by the time ...

Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Life and immortality. Everything we ask of art is in the eyes of these women, just two of the 58 extraordinary works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ...

Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity. They were painted with a palette that displayed a ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...