Courtesy the Halsted A&A Foundation The statue’s presentation at Wrightwood 659 sets the stage for “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” a highly ...
The timing of Athena’s display comes just before the highly anticipated travelling exhibition Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection opens at the Art Institute of ...
What it tells us about the past: This marble statuette depicts a dwarf-dancer, which was a common motif in ancient Mediterranean art. But while examples from Greece were usually exaggerated or ...