Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, 1873 Public Domain via Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the most famous 19th-century depictions of a Black enslaved woman is Why Born Enslaved!, a bust ...

Carrara, Italy — A remarkable innovation is changing the way timeless art is created. For centuries, Italy's world-famous Carrara marble has been used to make some of the most iconic sculptures in ...

Cleopatra was found in a dusty mall storage room outside Chicago in the late 1980s — wedged in among discarded Christmas decorations, covered in graffiti and house paint. The 3,000-pound neoclassical ...

PITTSFIELD — The decision will likely be made next week, and few envy those who have to make it. It is a choice between three life-size sculptures of W.E.B. Du Bois sitting on a marble bench, exuding ...

The researchers connected an inscription on a marble pedestal to the well-preserved marble sculpture. Photos by A.B. Biernacki / Klenina et al., npj Heritage Science, 2025 More than two decades ago, ...

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The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A vision for a long-desired sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois in his hometown would transform the front grounds of the library in memory of his civil rights legacy, as well as his love of ...

Selections from the Torlonia Collection on display at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth include this sarcophagus with a reclining couple on the lid. “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from ...