Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
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Restoration project to bring St. Armands statues back to life
Edward Pinto is leading a renewed effort to restore the damaged statues on St. Armands Circle to their former glory, calling ...
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An Art-filled Day at Florence's Uffizi Gallery
Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building ...
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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
Wallace, an author or editor of eight books about the Renaissance artist, viewed the statue on a Jenrette-led tour in 2015 with a group of conservationists. He told Insider the sculpture was ...