Only in 1962 did art conservators remove the tempera layer, returning the icon to its original state. Although usually, while talking about encaustic painting, we name Greek, Roman, and Byzantine ...

particularly after the Roman Empire took over Greece in 31 BCE. Metal and glass replaced pottery, and artists began ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

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 ...