Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts. While Roman sculptors famously copied idealized Greek originals and dramatic scenes of myths, they specialized in ...

The works were also placed in the archaeological museum at Sessa Aurunca, where they remained until they were removed in 1944. Given that evidence, Griswold said, the museum and Italy now view the ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

The Largest Private Collection of Ancient Roman Marble Sculptures is now on display until July 19 at the Montreal Museum of ...

Antiques dealer Laura Young purchased the bust at Goodwill for $34.99. Joel Salcido / San Antonio Museum of Art An antiques seller for about a decade, Laura Young knows what it means to sift through ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

Like the other white marble sculptures in the San Antonio Museum of Art’s Greek and Roman galleries, the portrait of Antinous, the Roman emperor Hadrian’s beautiful young lover, once was brightly ...

The Kimbell Art Museum will host its first exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture in its 52-year history. And the exhibit is a really big catch. “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

SAN ANTONIO — For four years, Laura Young couldn't discuss the ancient relic that sat in her home. It was best not to advertise the priceless bust in the entry hall, she says. "We had a water heater ...

An Austin, Texas, woman bought an ancient Roman bust at a Goodwill store. San Antonio Museum of Art. A priceless work of Roman art went missing after World War II— until it was sold for $34.99 at a ...