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 ...

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

Experts date the statue’s origin to the late 2 nd or early 3 rd century A.D. Other than the snapped-off right hand and some ...

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

Lifestyles of the rich and famous Life was very different for the upper classes. Wealthier Romans – including those who lived in the countryside – lived in a domus. This was a house built ...

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

Rome CNN — When the city of Rome constructed what looks like a backyard swimming pool in front of the famous Trevi Fountain ...

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 ...

and the 1818 fresco showing the excavation of famous Roman statues at the ancient town of Ostia—statues that are now on display in the museum. Contemporary art, too, has an important place in ...

Don't overlook this legendary Roman museum dating back to the 15th century, where you can explore a treasure trove of the ...

Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia ... SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble ... Experts think the artwork is a Roman replica of a lost Greek bronze statue created by the sculptor Leochares around 330 B.C.E. The sculpted ...