The display, hosted by Blvgari at the Art Institute of Chicago, showcases the largest private collection of Imperial Roman ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

The Italian master destroyed many of his drawings, intended for his eyes only, Muscarelle Museum of Art offers show of 25 ...

Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware.

But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...

New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

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 ...

Discover the fading art of hand-painted movie billboards in Greece, a tradition kept alive by a few dedicated artists. Marina Budiman, Indonesia’s richest woman, loses half her RM33.2 billion ...

In 1923, Italy annexed the islands under the Treaty of Lausanne and later, Mussolini began a policy of Italianization, trying to strip the idyllic islands of the influence of their Greek culture, ...

Art historian Luckas Nickel had speculated that a Greek sculptor may have visited China to train the locals that made the Terracotta Army. Credit: kevinmcgill/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 The ...