Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

Wonderful statues around the world are far more than those little snowmen and mermaids you made in your childhood. These ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

The Statue of Liberty — famously an inanimate object — is being *checks notes* transvestigated. We wish we were kidding, but ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

which bears the date of the Declaration of Independence in Roman numerals: July IV, MDCCLXXVI (4 July 1776). Over time, the copper oxidised to give the statue the green appearance it is best known ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

many statues of famous individuals turn out looking nothing like them. These mishaps have occurred with restorations of classic art works as well as wax figures of celebrities, but there's nothing ...

“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the ...

But when it comes to ancient Roman statues, being a little broken is almost the norm. Walk around any museum of classical art ...