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Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the emperor Hadrian, tells his own story in Scandalous Boy at Open Space Arts.

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Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a ...

For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

A Roman marble thought by its vendors to be a garden statue turned heads at Toovey’s where it sold earlier this month. The slightly over life-size bust was identified as a c. late 2 nd /early 3 rd ...

A Black woman statue in Times Square is sparking conversation—and she has sister sculptures across the globe that are just as meaningful.

Rosso’s tender, tilted heads and eccentric, swaying figures, modelled in plaster and wax, burst with such life, empathy and immediacy that it’s hard to believe their creator has been dead and ...

The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush ... strikingly surrounded on three sides by 18 sculptures (all but one busts on pedestals) of Rome’s imperial leaders and their ...

Bust of Queen Berenike II of Egypt ... This drastically changes our perception of Greco-Roman sculpture. Traditionally, statues have been studied from a formalist perspective, focusing on technique ...

Among them are funerary relics, busts of Roman emperors, and statues of deities—most, like the Halsted Athena, acquired around the 18th and 19th centuries.