Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...
The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...
One of the famous ancient Greek Riace Bronzes was found to have had its teeth designed following the mathematical value of ...
Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...
The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Savannah Sideways podcast takes a look at the unique history of ancient Roman statues that have recently resurfaced in Savannah. Local author Jessica Leigh Lebos spent five ...