When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

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

In Catholic tradition, saints are to be revered, but not worshipped. Thus, Anderson said, artistic renderings of canonized ...

But when I look into the marbled eyes of a Roman bust, I see what was frozen in time, what was once powerful and great, not what still is. There is beauty and artistic genius in these statues ...

No ideological links connect the NEH grantees who lost their funding. The cut was so deep and wide—eliminating 85 percent of all existing grants—that the reasoning seemed to extend beyond the narrower ...

It’s often all too difficult to convince myself to go off campus for the sole purpose of doing work. It is, undeniably, far ...

Bernini spent his entire adult life in Rome and, not surprisingly, he was chauvinistically Roman ... busts that he had first undertaken as a youth. "When Bernini came back to sculpture, it ...

Named after a regional Roman consul and proconsul during the ... including the wreathing of the busts and statues and the purchasing of additional books. These two provincial libraries highlight ...

“I just thought the Roman emperors wouldn ... Report commissioned a second bust for the sculptor to earn redemption — and the result was impressive. The statue of Ed Sheeran is displayed ...