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 ...
Darko Komšo: "the second century masterpiece will be laser cleaned and then join the permanent display of the Archaeological ...
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 9 (Sale info: To Be Distributed). Prize No. 9. Marble bust of Abraham Lincoln, from life--executed in the purest Carrara Statuary Marble, by L.W. VOLK--to ...
NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and the Kimbell Museum of Art invite you to experience Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, an exhibition of ancient Roman sculptures. The ...
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 ...
For years, a French family kept a small marble sculpture among family photos on top of their piano. The one-foot-tall artwork depicted a seated woman holding her leg in the air, and its owners thought ...
“Our participation [in Milan Design Week] has a romantic origin,” says Eleni Petaloti, one half of New York and Athens-based Objects of Common Interest. “I always complain about us Greeks not being ...
Next to the welcome center at the Williston southbound rest area along Interstate 89 stands a curiosity: “Cuarto Torres,” or “Four Towers,” a concrete sculpture made in 1971 by Colombian artist ...
At New York’s Pace Gallery, a series of 11 iridescent green sculptures flicker in the sun. The structures tower over viewers, ranging from seven to 11 feet tall, and spiral upward in intricate ...
This is part of a weekly series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Two sculptures flank the walkway to the entrance of the Justice Building in Salem, and ...
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...
Five two-part stone sculptures made of marble and granite stand along three diagonal lines, which are only recognizable if you follow the gaps between the wedge-shaped pairs of stones with your eyes, ...