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The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said

Canova’s influence on cultural heritage should not be overlooked

How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master

A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism

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A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned

The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?

Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor