Michelangelo, the genius behind David and the Sistine Chapel, led a life filled with passion, a legendary rivalry with ...

I encountered a rare breed: a cruise-obsessed millennial. Forget island paradise; she would ditch land at every chance, ...

Two patterned black-and-white round columns soar above three stories, reaching the roof's painted blue sky with fluffy clouds fit for the gods ... sitting under a Roman statue surrounded by ...

Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...

sitting atop a base depicting Eros (the Greek god of love and desire) seated on a dolphin. Experts believe the statue is likely a Roman imagining of the Greek mythical figures created during the ...

The display, hosted by Blvgari at the Art Institute of Chicago, showcases the largest private collection of Imperial Roman ...

Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The research is based on a series of classical texts describing how statues of gods and illustrious figures were perfumed. For example, the Roman orator Cicero ...

sitting on a base depicting the god Eros seated on a dolphin. Next to the Aphrodite statue, researchers found another nearly 2-metre-tall statue of a woman with features from the time of Roman ...