immortalized by works such as Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ...

the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition ... from the ancient city’s ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity ...

I had traveled more than 6,000 miles to ask Canavesi about one of the world’s most contested pieces of ancient art: a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess ...

Around 2000 replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures ... The Gallery of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art makes lost art visible to everyone. Aphrodite, Zeus, Julius Caesar, the Parthenon model or ...