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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family.
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 ...
The Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., is one of two U.S. institutions to host the Torlonia Foundation’s exhibition “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digging into the light brown dirt, archaeologists in the United Kingdom found themselves face-to-face with two ancient Roman ...
On view at Villa Albani Torlonia is "Eros in a chariot pulled by wild boar," a kind of super-pastiche in which only the hindquarters of one boar are ancient, along with the relief on the chariot and ...
Two huge Roman head sculptures have been found at a sports club, in what archaeologists have described as "finds of a lifetime." Volunteers uncovered the carved sandstone artifacts, thought to be ...
Ancient Egyptian and Roman sculptures have been discovered in Kluczkowice, a small village in eastern Poland. Experts spent a year confirming their authenticity and determining how they got there.
In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...
Archaeologists unearthed pair of “monumental” heads at Hadrian’s Wall ruins in Carlisle and called it “find of a lifetime,” photos show. Screengrab from Cumberland Council's YouTube video Digging into ...
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