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The Smell of Gods: Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Once Not Only Painted But Also Perfumed
For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
The Street Journal5d
Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...
ETX Daily Up on MSN7d
Swedish underwater art exhibit highlights rising water levels
Defiantly flipping off both middle fingers, a mermaid made of recovered metal scraps with hair fashioned out of red plastic ...
Yahoo12d
A Man Who Got Stuck In A Decorative Dinosaur Statue And 15 Other Extremely Strange Ways People Met Their End
Person with long hair holding a flowing scarf above their ... in a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters 'threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he ...
Why does Real Madrid legend Ferenc Puskás have a statue in Melbourne?
Tucked away in a lonely corner of Melbourne stands a statue of a Real Madrid legend. Here is the forgotten story of Ferenc Puskas in Australia.
Paul W.S. Anderson on Getting Lost in George R.R. Martin’s World
The director talks his new film In the Lost Lands, skipping the Resident Evil reboot, and his harshest critics.
Observer21d
Cy Twombly’s Decades of Poetry and Play Captivate at Gagosian
Like most of the artist's output, the paintings, sculpture and works on paper in ... a fragment of Sappho’s poetry, Greek myth, seashells, Roman statuary and shards, a cloudy day, junk, the ...
The Justice6d
Brandeis' post-baccalaureate exhibition opens
On March 12, I attended the opening of the post-baccalaureate art exhibition in Dreitzer Gallery. This exhibition features four incredible artists. I was lucky enough to chat with them about their ...
The Armenian Weekly6d
Odzun and Ardvi villages, St. Hovhan Odzneci’s cradle of life and thought
Situated on the left-side upland plateau of Debed Canyon in the Lori province, Odzun is one of the largest villages in ...
The New York Times26d
Nine Artists Who Shine at the 2025 Outsider Art Fair
(1964), which features buxom Greek gods, phallic rockets and a speckled ... When the warmth and precision of Bartlett’s sculpture meets the dry whimsy of his camera, the results are as subtle ...