The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago ... which began in 27 B.C.E. with the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and ended with the western empire’s collapse in 476 C.E.

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor ... Italian art. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, or Nero for short, was the last emperor of the Julio ...

These gods had made their home in the Roman world at an early time, along with Greek art and literature ... perhaps not surprising that Rome's first emperor, Augustus, placed his reign under ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works ...

Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” has works span hundreds of years, with the earliest piece dating from ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.