We’re often accustomed to seeing these ancient statues in sterile museum settings. This is not how people admired these works of art when they were made. Ancient statues were not only painted in ...

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 ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...