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After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.
New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.
Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated as construction material at the time of the ...
Real and ideal. 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 ...
Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting ... latest discoveries depict two real people of high social status ...
Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with ... was designed to help “the viewer to imagine the scents the sculpture would have emitted if it was real/living.” ...
A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...
By the early 19th century, the systematic excavation of ancient Greek and Roman sites was bringing forth great numbers of statues, and there were scholars on hand to document the scattered traces ...
Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...