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

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

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 ...

Honoring the legacies of its patron saint and its founder in serving the poor and addressing the root causes of poverty, the ...

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

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Twice a day, the depths of the River Thames are pulled back by the power of the moon, opening up its foreshore to the ...

The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo ...

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