Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine25d
A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman ... the first Roman emperor, and ended with the western empire’s collapse in 476 C.E ...
Greek Reporter6d
The Ancient Roman Emperors Who Loved Greece
Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
Miami Herald on MSN19d
What did ancient Roman artists use to paint Pompeii? New study offers a glimpse
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?
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in ...
Chicago Sun-Times23d
Art Institute showcases ancient Roman sculptures in unprecedented 'Myth and Marble' exhibit
Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture ... from the 2nd-century height of the Roman Empire, the western portion of which ended ...