In ancient Greece and Rome ... works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like ...

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and ...

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

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

Bright Greek marble statues such as the "Peplos Kore" may shock many, as a myth of whiteness in ancient art has long been perpetuatedImage: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA/picture alliance/dpa In the 20th ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece ... like Cicero and examining the ...

The Classical era of ancient Greek sculpture, which emerged in ... During this period, Greek art experienced a shift in style and subject matter, reflecting the cultural, political, and social ...

Michelangelo and others emulated what they believed to be the ancient aesthetic, leaving the stone of most of their statues ... style that to this day remains our paradigm for Greek art.

Previous research has found traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white were in fact highly colourful.

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient ... of sculptures shows us just how difficult this task is. Generations of art historians specializing in Greek ...