Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and “Laocoön and His Sons” — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of ...

An astonishing collection of Greek and Roman sculptures is about to go on view in Rome after being hidden for decades. The private collection, which rivals those in the world’s great museums, has been ...

Walk through the Louvre Museum in Paris and explore galleries filled with classical sculptures, marble statues, and historic ...

A workshop in Florence reveals the mysteries of classical sculpture. Our correspondent gets hands-on to see it all take shape. These sculptures take shape in the hands of fifth-generation owner ...

The Halsted Athena, Roman, first half of the 1st century CE; marble, height 74.5 in. Courtesy the Halsted A&A Foundation Acquiring original Roman classical marbles is no simple feat. Between stringent ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...

Take a walking tour through the sculpture halls of the Louvre Museum in Paris. This 4K video highlights ancient works and classical art displayed inside one of the world’s most visited museums.

The Lucas brothers in the midst of their hallucinatory vision at the Metropolitan Museum (all images screenshoted by the author for Hyperallergic) In a segment titled “White at the Museum” aired ...