When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically ... persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.