The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their contemporary setting.

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

In the first centuries BCE and CE, court poets, coins, statues, gifts of grain, and military actions proclaimed that the son of god—the Roman emperor Augustus and, later, Nero—had initiated a golden ...

At Villa Adriana, built by the emperor Hadrian in the second century ... who failed to find marble statues or frescoed rooms and decided that the site held little interest. As a result ...

In antiquity, this had been a nymphaeum, or shrine to water nymphs, decorated with marble statues and glass ... Roman aristocrats, including the emperor Augustus himself, would travel by horseback ...

The lower section is ideal for a stroll among the pools lined with balusters, vases, statues, and benches ... in 15 B.C. during the rule of Emperor Augustus. The tower is 18 meters tall today ...

My fellow grimdark Admirals, today learn of the dread vessels that lead the twisted Emperor’s Children ... Also lined with pale marble walls, and black terrazzo flooring and supported by pillars and ...

The Spanish songstress looked like a marble sculpture come to like in the piece, which looked like it was sculptuted onto her body. Its strict, body-hugging silhouette created a lovely hourglass ...

This “Eastward Expedition” traditionally marks the beginning of Japan as a nation, and Jinmu is revered as the legendary first tennō, or emperor, of Japan. The Komamiya shrine in Nichinan ...