Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...
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ETX Daily Up on MSNSmell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented, Danish study showsIt was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess," the author of the study, Cecilie Brons, told the Danish scientific website Videnskab on Friday.The archaeologist and curator at the Copenhagen ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNA Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First TimeThe marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...
Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” has works span hundreds of years, with the earliest piece dating from ...
Research shows that statues were impregnated with fragrances, challenging the perception of sculpture as a purely visual art ...
Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...
One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love ... the statues unearthed from the ancient city’s “East Street” could be a Roman imagining of Greek mythical ...
Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...
A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...
From the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome’s port city of Ostia to local shrines and colossal structures like the Pantheon, the ancient Romans worshipped a pantheon of gods, some local ...
The use of perfumes in ancient art had not only a decorative purpose ... In ancient Greece and Rome, people honored the gods with exotic perfumes and aromatic oils, labrujulaverde.com states.
A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has revealed a little-explored aspect of ancient art: the use ...
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