When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless ... Ancient statues were not ...

In addition to smelling wonderful, Greco-Roman statues were also ... as an established fact that ancient artworks whether in wood, terracotta or stone, were painted.” “In some cases they ...

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 ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated as construction material at the time of the ...

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient times, the sculptures, which now look pure plain white to us were not only painted, but also regularly perfumed.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved ... discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might ... But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are special, and ...