The Romans oversaw one of the largest and most important empires in history – these are the most extraordinary treasures they ...

One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family.

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

The Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., is one of two U.S. institutions to host the Torlonia Foundation’s exhibition “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” The ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

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. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...

An installation view of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently ...

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 City ...