Renaissance artists thought statues from antiquity were bare marble and fashioned their works ... such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, according to information published on ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

As the goddess of love, beauty and sexual pleasure ... Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...

The statue’s size and detail suggested the goddess had been the object of cult worship in an ancient temple. Its rare combination of materials—head and extremities of fine marble, body of ...

The marble statue was found in pieces and stands on ... During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love) and Eros (god of love), were also ...

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed, possibly after a fire in the third century. In its place, the Christians installed a pulpit and a marble bishop's throne, and the temple of ...

A 1,700-year-old marble statue of Hercules has been unearthed at the mediaeval site of Montaione in Tuscany. Discovered by an archaeology student, this rare artifact is notable for its detailed ...

The white marble of "Laocoön and His Sons" would ... many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, according to information ...