Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Schmalz on Thursday in Rome spoke about evangelization through ... for Promoting Integral Human Development, said Schmalz’s statue Angels Unawares, which was installed in St. Peter’s Square ...

They pushed four “bulging purses” into a cavity in the leg of a sandstone statue that was part of a grave for a count and countess, Dräger said. The hoard included a rare “golden angel ...

“We tried to be largely chronological, which is to say, we began in ancient Sumer, and then we did Egypt, and then we did Greece and Rome ... thousand-year-old statue they’d both admired ...

The novelist was based in Rome while writing his new novel and says the footprints of the Irish are all over the Eternal City ...

Experience the magic of Greece: immerse yourself in its rich history, breathtaking landscapes and vibrant culture. A top ...

The following address was delivered this evening (Sunday 9 February) by Bishop Tom Deenihan, Bishop of Meath, at the Embassy ...

Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC ... several surviving depictions of Cleopatra, including statues, ...

The work is a terracotta model of the statue Bernini made for a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome in 1653. It then came into the possession of an Italian family. The sculptor was an important ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than ... the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Augustus in Rome. Estelle Strazdins, a classical studies expert at the Australian ...

The statue that dates back to the Hellenistic period, which covers the time between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 BC, according to the History ...