Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, the world has admired the stunning beauty of ancient Greek and Roman ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum’s collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century ...

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

Torlonia Collection, Rome. Unlike the Beaux-Arts spaces where Greek and Roman art is displayed, say, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, these spaces are clean and spare with a subtle ...