The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

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The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...

and features portraits of eight emperors, with three coins depicting a ruler named Eugenius. Eugenius, the illegitimate emperor of the Western Roman Empire, had a short reign of only two years ...

which come from all over the Roman Empire, and they are pretty much the same - the variations are really not very significant. So the portrait was very, very recognisable, and very enduring." ...