While there are old favorites in the museum, like the plaster casts of classical statues that have stood since the beginning, there are new items and new exhibits at the museum, Rugh said. “Because of ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

taste and classical ideals, and to see color as alien, sensual and garish.” “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from July 5 ...

Louvre Museum in Paris closed unexpectedly because of a staff strike. Thousands of tourists were left outside. Workers ...

Brinkmann and his team also contributed to the ongoing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City "Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color," which runs until late March 2023. White ...

Rejected by Narciso, for not being able to communicate with her lover except by repeating the last syllable of every word, she was immortalized in Paul Lemoyne's sculpture in 1822. One of the four ...

A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ... Platt said that among experts in classical studies, the idea that statues were scented is already well-established. But given the attention ...

But when it comes to ancient Roman statues, being a little broken is almost the norm. Walk around any museum of classical art, and you'll likely see shattered noses, cleaved fingers and an awful ...

The Acropolis Museum put on a show in 2012 that explored ... and the idea of white classical statues was useful in the conceptualization of racial superiority. For the Nazis, this meant aligning ...