Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial ...

Art History Have Yourself a Roman Christmas! Here’s How Ancient Holiday Customs Live on Today. How did ancient Romans influenced the way we celebrate Christmas?

When a rare Roman glass vase emerged in 2009, it was big news in the art world – until the vessel vanished. Alastair Sooke uncovers a fascinating story.

Houston's holiday season will have a distinctly Roman feeling this year, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is bringing the glory of the Gladiator era to Texas. On November 2, 2025 through ...

Roman Art and Imperial Policy by Niels Hannestad (Aarhus University Press, 1986) Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus edited by Anton Powell (Bristol Classical Press, 1992) ...

Unusual numbers of high-quality Roman imperial statues and portrait heads began appearing on the international art market in the mid-1960s. Dealers whispered the story of these extremely rare ...

In the 1990s, Meyer embarked on a comprehensive history of imperial Roman art and published two books on sculptural works, the first on the figure of Antinous — Emperor Hadrian's lover and the subject ...

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

Researchers from the University of Zaragoza were investigating neglected ruins near Aragón, Spain, when they stumbled upon what they believed could be an entire Roman city. While the ...