The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Smell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented, Danish study shows Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish ...
Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...
Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...
Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.
The use of perfumes in ancient art had not only a decorative purpose ... In ancient Greece and Rome, people honored the gods ...
Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.
Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess ... paper. Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures ...
It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess," the author of ... More information: Cecilie Brøns, THE SCENT OF ANCIENT GRECO‐ROMAN SCULPTURE, Oxford Journal of Archaeology (2025).