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A Gladiator's Marble-Etched Epitaph Is Found in an Ancient Roman Necropolis
Over 2,200 years ago, the Republic of Rome founded a colony called Liternum on Italy’s west coast, just north of present-day ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
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Inside Italy's Carrara marble mountains worth $1 billion
The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times ...
Study finds many ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were scented
Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...
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Art Institute showcases ancient Roman sculptures in unprecedented 'Myth and Marble' exhibit
But the museum’s just-opened show in this realm, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ... This massive 57½-by-104¾-inch stone coffin, which weighs some 9,000 pounds, is a ...