“Statue of a Draped Woman,” a 2,000-year-old torso, had spent almost 50 years at the Getty before a curator came across its head, a carved marble portrait of a stern-looking Roman woman in a N ...

A reconstruction of a statue of a torso in armor from the Athenian Acropolis ... of ancient sculpture interspersed among Greek and Roman originals, creating a riot of color amid the more subtle ...

The bronze head of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus on ... When exactly the statue’s head and torso were separated isn’t known, but experts now think that both pieces were smuggled out ...

However, the original sculpture did not depict him at all. The ancient part of this piece is a nude male torso with a dog head biting into his side and a paw mauling him. These once belonged to ...

“The head has Athena’s helmet and the torso has Athena’s aegis (sash ... travelling exhibition Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection opens at the Art ...

A 'spectacular' Roman sculpture has been found buried little more than a foot deep next to an A-road in Kent. The unique stone statue depicts Triton – a merman with the torso of a man and the ...

Except the head may have never even had a leg (or neck, or torso) to stand ... more finely crafted marble statues (and raw marble) were sent out across both the Roman Empire and the rest of ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, wildlife, and nature (also known as Diana in Roman mythology)—and ...

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 ...