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

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 ...

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

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

The Venus de Milo is one of the most representative statues of ancient Greece, it is immediately recognizable by its missing ...

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

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...