Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first ...

How The Ancient Statues Of Greece And Rome Were Performed As Brøns reported in her study, many of the statues that were anointed with perfumes were statues of Roman and Greek gods. In Sicily ...

In ancient Greece and Rome ... wrote Meilan Solly for Smithsonian magazine in 2022. The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.

Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

collecting evidence that in ancient Greece and Rome, it was common to anoint a sculpture with perfumes and oils. Though past researchers have uncovered references to such practices, Brons found ...

The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people were bought and sold all ... gods. They made offerings at temples and shrines to make them happy. Image caption, A ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works ... tells us that all cultures are ...