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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...
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Girl statue removed from German university to be reinstalled on Women's Day
[YONHAP] A girl statue symbolizing victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery will be installed at a church in Germany next week, two years after it was removed from the nearby University of Kassel ...
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Original statue of Our Lady of Fátima headed to Rome for Jubilee of Marian Spirituality
On the occasion of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality, scheduled for Oct. 11–12, the original statue of Our Lady of Fátima will be taken to Rome. The famous image of Our Lady, known to the ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
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Montanelli statue vandalised again
(ANSA) - ROME, APR 4 - A controversial Milan statue of late Italian journalism ... never apologised for buying the 12-year-old girl, whom he frequently recalled as 'a small docile animal", when ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
For example, the statue "Laocoön and his Sons," found in Rome in 1503, had colors that were "deliberately looked over," said Brinkmann, adding that the traces of color were often attributed to ...
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Pope Francis experiences two new episodes of acute respiratory failure in hospital
A woman and a young girl pray at the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital on March 2. (CNS/Lola Gomez) While the pope's blood test values remain stable ...