White statues of the classical world also fit ideals ... youth," according to the museum's description. Color in ancient Greek art was also often likely used to show gender: Men were depicted ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body is, the more ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, though not altogether headless. Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the ...

Greek City Times reports that groundbreaking ... this discovery significantly alters our understanding of classical sculpture and suggests that classical art was designed to engage multiple ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

One exception is a statue of the Ptolemaic Queen Berenice ... University's Department of Classics who specializes in Greek and Roman art history and was not involved in the study, said scenting ...

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and ...