The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated.

Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have discovered a number of beautiful glass artifacts underground in Nîmes in the south of France.

Archaeologists uncovered a rare 2nd-century marble sculpture of Sleeping Cupid in Croatia, offering new insight into the city ...

Darko Komšo: "the second century masterpiece will be laser cleaned and then join the permanent display of the Archaeological Museum of Istria".

How much do we actually know about the roots of Roman Art? Elizabeth Marlowe is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. Her research focuses on Ancient Roman art and its ...

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

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 ...

Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in ancient Roman art and architecture. She has also done extensive research in Greek and ...

The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic churches of its fall. With its vast empire, ancient Rome gave Europe its first common culture. From England to Turkey, we explore the ...

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...