"This [sculpture of Cleopatra] was not a beautiful work, but it was a very original and very striking one . . . [Cleopatra] is seated in a chair; the poison of the asp has done its work and the ...

Unusually for a a sacred site, this sculpture was dedicated to Fundilia by her former slave Doctus, an actor. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of ...

But in the 21st century, the Elgin Marbles, as they've long been known, are famous less as art objects than as objects of political controversy. For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in ...