In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 128 West 14th Street, May, 1875. https://siris-artexhibition.si.edu ...

The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

Gibran, Kahlil, "Sculpture: Kahlil Gibran," Boston: The Bartlett Press, 1970. A head with the facial features lacking definition. A coil of hair is prominent in the manner it wraps around the head of ...