But that’s not the case we’ll discuss today with the statue parlanti, or talking statues, because these expressed themselves in writing. They are a series of figures scattered throughout Rome that ...
a few enemies. Likely a citizen of the ancient Roman-era city of Odessos, his likeness was immortalized with a statue sometime around the 2 nd or 3 rd centuries A.D. But the stone depiction of ...
A marble statue from ancient Rome was recently discovered in what is now Varna, Bulgaria. Experts date the statue’s origin to the late 2 nd or early 3 rd century A.D. Other than the snapped-off ...
The damage at St. Therese of Lisieux Roman Catholic Church on Ave. D in Brooklyn includes a statue of the Virgin Mary and one of the church’s namesake that had been in place since the house of ...
The Sacro Bosco's meaning is the subject of debate, with scholars alternatively describing the sprawling complex as a memorial, an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations ...
Francis celebrated All Souls’ Day Mass at the Laurentino cemetery, on Rome’s southern outskirts. Ahead of the Mass, he stopped for a silent prayer at the graves of children who were never born, an ...