Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

At that time, Italian artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman heritages ... They found (and created) a refined aesthetic, of which white marble statues are a major draw. It was in this way that ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

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

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Lions often sat atop tombs in ancient Greece, where ornamental ... what they believed to be the ancient aesthetic, leaving the stone of most of their statues its natural color.

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. "A white marble statue ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their ...

Much of our aesthetic engagement is visual or auditory ... it can be shown that in ancient times, the sculptures, which now look pure plain white to us were not only painted, but also regularly ...