Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...

Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts. While Roman sculptors famously copied idealized Greek originals and dramatic scenes of myths, they specialized in ...

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...

Building on their collaboration, Pacsun partnered with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to introduce The Greek and Roman Collection. The collection, which launched Friday, is priced between $25 and $90 ...

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Thanks to the artist Haroun Binous, we now see that Roman emperor Augustus was the heartthrob Daniel Craig of the ancient ...

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, ...

Rome’s rise, as seen in its supersized monuments, colorful mosaics, and marble Caesars. Follow Rome’s rise through its awe-inspiring art, starting at Rome’s humble birthplace in the Forum. Soon Rome ...

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...