A year earlier, he had purchased a veritable twin of the MFA work — a gilded wood carving ... of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the fathers of modern sculpture.

Once you get to that spot, you emerge into a clearing where there is this classicizing temple, and you feel like you have ...

stone and wood sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts from the European Middle Ages and Renaissance Sculpture in wood, stone, and precious metals from West and Central Africa Painting, wood sculpture, ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa ... His Mary Magdalene, carved out of wood, is provocative, shockingly realistic. Rather than a saint in glory, Donatello portrays ...

After all, the intricate craft of wood carving, which dates back to the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), is painstaking work. It took Hu one entire afternoon just to complete the facial expression of the ...

But an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ... flaps in bound books. Opaque wooden or canvas covers began to fall ...