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An erotic Ancient Roman mosaic stolen by a Wehrmacht officer in 1944 and given to a German citizen was returned to its rightful home at Pompeii in a ceremony by Italy's crack art cops Tuesday. The ...
To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...
Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...
London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection through June 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago. artic.edu Portus relief, late 2nd-early 3rd century, Roman, Imperial period.
Konstantine Panegyres reveals what finding love was like in Ancient Greece and Rome - and what lessons we can take into the ...
Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo ...
"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 that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...
Statue of a Resting Goat. Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period. Head attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation ...