Professor Martin Henig, an expert on Roman art at the University ... I suspect that, when the emperor came, the whole place was festooned in purple hanging so that he was in an imperial space.

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid ... members of different classes even dressed differently. Only the emperor was allowed to wear a purple toga, while senators could wear a white ...

Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial ...

It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors ... The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and ...