Several ancient statues ... sculptures, the men observed the most monumental one. “That is the Laocoön,” Sangallo gasped, “which Pliny mentions.” When the six-foot-tall marble statue ...

Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware. When you think of ancient sculpture ...

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine ... Alps and saw them frosted not with snow but with white, chalky marble that I could appreciate the vibrant beauty of this ...

When he was carving white marble ... well-connected art connoisseurs who recognized the boy's talent was Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who commis-sioned four colossal marble statues from him ...

The works themselves look like old marble statues with folds. Sometimes the river water is dirty and shades of brown seep ...

The conversion retains many features of the 100-year-old Neo-classical building, including marble staircases polished ... Creamy pillars and statues, backlit with an evocative Roman torso motif, adorn ...

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An ancient Greco-Roman statue that’s been one of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s most-prized pieces for decades will soon return to its home country of Türkiye — but it will go on ...

But it dropped its complaint in February of this year, agreeing to return the statue to Turkey after new scientific testing on the sculpture and a shrine in Turkey proved it had been looted from ...

The woman who was the model for the statue will also be on hand to give a performance. 16 internal motors allow the sculpture's chest to move and at night, she will glow. Cochrane, the artist ...

The 12th-century sculpture, referred to as the "Grey Sandstone Torso", depicts a male figure. Originally rendered with four arms, the Torso hails from the Baphuon period, an era defined by the ...