Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture ... power and influence held by many women of elite Roman families.” The ...

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome ... him with safeguarding the cultural heritage of ancient Rome. Portrait of a Young Woman, known as the Maiden of Vulci, Mid-1st Century BCE.

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the ...

D’Ambra, E. 1996. “The Calculus of Ve­nus. Nude Portraits of Roman Women.” In Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy, edited by N.B. Kampen, 219-32. Cambridge Studies in New Art ...

Other women, attract attention for their flagrant sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... often a nephew – to make sure that the family line would not die out. Roman women usually married in their early teenage years, while men waited until ...