The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

While the legendary statues of ancient Greece and Rome are now known the world over as stark white works of art housed in museums and galleries, those who viewed them 2,000 years ago would have had a ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

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

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. "A white marble statue ...

Greek-born sculptor George Petrides presented Greece's UN representative with a sculpture of an ancient Greek female figure ...

Many centuries later, these ancient beliefs that athletes should look like sculptures took on very different meanings. As Stocking says, “Greek sculpture has been appropriated for body fascism ...

The Greeks had style! Their red and black pottery was very famous. They were great builders too. The Greeks built grand temples to their gods and superb sculptures of brave heroes. They pretty ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...

Stunning. You can find out a lot about Ancient Greece from the buildings, sculptures, and works of art. They show the places we lived and worked and worshipped; and the type of items we used in ...