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Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the emperor Hadrian, tells his own story in Scandalous Boy at Open Space Arts.
Generations: 150 years of Sculpture” demonstrates the Nasher Sculpture Center's extraordinary range and depth of modern works ...
Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...
The Dioscuri, the Ancient Roman statues of demigods Castor and Pollux that have stood outside the presidential Quirinale ...
Rosso’s tender, tilted heads and eccentric, swaying figures, modelled in plaster and wax, burst with such life, empathy and ...
New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...
Aphrodite is portrayed with a bare torso, while drapery covers the lower half of ... Venus de’ Medici Marble Statue of Aphrodite (Roman), dating 1st-2nd century CE. It was inspired by earlier statues ...
According to archaeologists, the head of the same statue was dug up in 1927 and is now in Cambodia's National museum in the capital Phnom Penh. The two parts may be reattached for display.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head ...
This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. According to ...
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 ...
Among them is a statue of Hermes, a Greek god from the Roman Imperial Period ... The 2024 excavations also led to the discovery of torso fragments that are believed to belong to Artemis, the Greek ...