Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

As the goddess of love, beauty and ... such as Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much ...

I had traveled more than 6,000 miles to ask Canavesi about one of the world’s most contested pieces of ancient ... art: a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek ...

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the ... 2-metre-high statue ...

Movie"Another moment in ancient ... to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between ...

Archaeologists were amazed to spot heads of statues depicting ancient Greek deities ... season is uncovering new heads of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, and the deity of wine Dionysus ...