New excavations at the ancient thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany, Italy have yielded a life-sized, well-preserved statue of the mythical figure Apollo Sauroktonos—the latest discovery ...

A picture taken on October 15th, 2024 shows the marble statue of Apollo Belvedere at the Vatican Museums upon its return on display following five-year-long restoration work. Photo by Andreas SOLARO / ...

Once considered to epitomise classical Western ideals of beauty, the 2.24-metre-high (seven-feet-tall) marble statue shows the Greek god of medicine and poetry in motion, his left arm having just let ...

When a shepherd—the only resident on the three-square-mile island of Despotikó—spotted a Byzantine coin lying in his goat pen in 2010, it was like finding an “X” on a treasure map, but the coin was ...

The Apollo Belvedere—chiseled in the second century, excavated from a ruin over a millennium later, and installed at the Vatican in the early 16th century—has come to be regarded as the epitome of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON — Some might consider him a Biblical hero. Others may see him as an ancient Greek god. Either way, “David-Apollo” is a tour de force of Italian ...

Michael Bennett is a confident man these days. The Cleveland Museum of Art's curator of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman art believes that he made the purchase of a lifetime in 2004, when he ...

When federal agents raided four museums in Los Angeles last month to seize artworks allegedly involved in smuggling, it raised a natural question. Could the Cleveland Museum of Art be next? If so, one ...