In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some of the world’s best-known artists to decorate the second-story niches of ...

In this video, I present my first stone carving, a sculpture of a female torso made from Calacatta marble and modern clear epoxy. The sculpture measures 24” tall, 14” wide, and 9” thick, weighing 76 ...

When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

Divide sculptor Francisco Sotomayor turns a piece of marble into a connection to the American Woman sculpture. Courtesy of Francisco Sotomayor Decades after creating the Pas de Deux and American Woman ...

The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon in 1728, was found propping open a shed door in 1998 SWNS A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune.

Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon in 1728, was found propping open a shed door in 1998 The bust, made by French ...