If this is too noisy, we can move.” This is the first thing that Thomas Barlow, a local sculptor, said in his interview with ...

Karen LaMonte’s sculptures explore ideas around femininity, resilience, and conventions of beauty throughout history.

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000) at auction.

A huge sculpture cut from a 700-ton block of Italian travertine. Working with a diamond saw, a jackhammer, and a polishing ...

A huge sculpture cut from a 700-ton block of Italian travertine. Working with a diamond saw, a jackhammer, and a polishing team, it took two years. Robo, Erdman says, would have helped.

Guiseppe Moretti, the sculptor who created the statue of Vulcan in Birmingham, quarried some marble there in the 1920s to use in his sculptures. “He hauled a sample block of the gleaming white ...

The quarries are also changing. Today, less than 1 percent of the marble extracted in Carrara is used for sculpture - a stark departure from the region’s traditional legacy.

The sculptor began with an 11.5-ton block of precious statuario marble excavated from Michelangelo’s cave in the Apuan Italian Alps in Tuscany. The black marble used for the rose came from Spain.

Working in materials including marble, stone and bronze, he exhibited at a wide variety of venues from 1974. They included Regent’s Park Zoo, London, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Royal ...

Several centuries after the Italian Renaissance, marble remains a staple material for artists. In the image aboove, students at Carrara’s Academy of Fine Arts first hone their sculpting skills ...