Jackson Square, designed as military parade grounds, was known as the Place d’Armes during the French colonial period and ...

It is the place from which Michelangelo obtained the raw material for his statues ... role do women play in the struggle? Marble is a historically male theme: the quarryman is traditionally ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

It was the physical, marble embodiment of their values ... and which was also loaded with sculpture with transcendent themes. So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens ...

It's hard to carve a marble statue in secret The trouble for ... reflects his interest in antiquity and mythology, even if those themes are not as developed as in his later works.

The exhibition doesn’t challenge only the themes and attitudes that underlie 19th-century American sculpture in marble and bronze. It questions marble and bronze themselves. Some of the selected ...

Bejeweled Crown Stolen From Virgin Mary Statue at Philadelphia Church PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man broke into a Philadelphia church and stole a 125-year-old bejeweled crown from atop a marble ...