Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...
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Statues of women, ancient and modern

Venus of Willendorf—an 11.1 cm tall stone figure carved 30,000 years ago from oolitic limestone by Europe’s first people, the Gravettians—is one of the world’s most important cultural artifacts.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...

Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...