In Texas, a 2,000 year old Roman sculpture turned up at a Goodwill store. What followed, for one woman, was a years-long effort to learn how it got there and to try to return it to its rightful owner.
A stunning marble torso of a Roman emperor made headlines at an auction, fetching an astounding $34.26 million, breaking previous records. This remarkable piece, which was sold for only $7.36 million ...
“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the Vatican ...
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...
Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...
A 1st century C.E. marble of a Roman emperor sold for $34.3 million on Oct 21 in a white glove sale that netted $63 million.
FORT WORTH - The Torlonia Collection of ancient sculpture, a portion of which has just arrived at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, offers a dazzling glimpse of the Roman world and a compelling ...
The ‘Kneeling Barbarian’ sculpture from the Palatine Hill in Rome, dates to the first century CE, made of pavonazzo marble and nero antico, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum (image by ...
For centuries, the quintessential image of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture has been the pure white marble statue. But these ancient works of gods, goddesses, important personalities, and ...
This Roman limestone statue, Fragment of Myron's Samian Athena, was apparently illegally smuggled out of Italy. The US government is asking Kim Kardashian to forfeit an ancient Roman sculpture that ...