What's more, Roman sculptors would sometimes deliberately design their statues with removable heads that "popped out" at the ...

From Rome to Charlottesville, a statue is never just a statue The meanings we attach to monuments always shift over time, writes a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. Share this: ...

An Aladdin’s cave of classical art: Some of the 96 restored statues and busts from the Torlonia Collection in Rome that will be on public view for the first time in March.

Roman statues frequently appear headless due to their necks' fragility, deliberate actions such as damnatio memoriae to erase ...

There’s a group of Russians Vladimir Putin’s hometown who love their leader so much that they are erecting a statue of him in the likeness of a Roman emperor — complete with plate… ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023, as ...

An exhibition that opened Friday at Rome’s Quirinal Palace could be described as a classic rags-to-riches story. Just ten months ago, many of the bronze statues now on show there — artfully ...

There are many reasons an ancient statue might accidentally lose its head — and some for its head to be severed on purpose.

I tell these stories of Paris, Rome and Jerusalem as parallels to debate that has been intensified following the horrible events in Charlottesville. Skip to content. ADVERTISE.

So why are so many Roman statues headless? Answering that question requires some "archaeological CSI" work, said Rachel Kousser, a classics and art history professor at Brooklyn College and the ...

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