After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient ... “In the 18th century, Athena was known among the British grand tourists as Minerva, probably because they ...

The statue’s original owner, William Weddell—a British landowner and politician—purchased it during the mid-1700s in Rome for his estate, Newby Hall, in North Yorkshire. There, Athena ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years ... The work was first acquired in Rome in the 18th century by British politician William Weddell, who boasted a voracious collecting ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis, was stripped of its gold which was then struck into coins. This was the only known example when King ...