Police have questioned one man about the discarded statue and released ... tells the Times, the marble statue was probably made for religious purposes. “The small size is typical for such ...

The 125-year-old statue was taken down last December after a drone inspection, in September, discovered a wedge-shaped gap in the marble base the Independent Man stands on, prompting the emergency ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...

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The original marble statue was completed in 1792 by French sculptor ... The Marquis de Lafayette, Washington’s aide de camp during the Revolutionary War, said “that is the man himself. I can almost ...

Houdon made a life-mask of Washington cast in plaster and took it back to Paris where he used it to carve the first statue from marble. It is the best representation of how the great man actually ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works ...

Another statue of a woman with similar features but broken into two pieces and sculptures of a clothed man and woman side ... renowned for its production of marble statues. Archaeologists continue ...