Shanxi Province, dubbed China's "above-ground cultural relics museum," boasts 531 nationally protected key cultural relic sites, including three intact wooden structures from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

The Department of Art History and Art will host Rachel Kousser, professor of Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, for the ...

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

Selections from the Torlonia Collection on display at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth include this sarcophagus with a reclining couple on the lid. “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from ...

One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...

Sculptures have been a part of human culture for thousands of years. Some of the oldest sculptures in the world are fascinating pieces of art that give us a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors.

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

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