The original statues of the Christus and the apostles were made of plaster, and are currently inside the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The completed marble Christus was placed inside the Church of ...

Construction workers came across an "exceptionally preserved" marble statue during a job in the city of Varna in Bulgaria. The Varna Regional Museum of History announced the find in a Facebook ...

Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public ...

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

In a place of honor was a life-size marble statue of the Greek god Pan with a wicked expression, a forked beard, and an 8-inch erect penis leaning left. The cardinal, it appears, built a pillared ...

Some church observers sneered that the artist made her look too youthful to have a son who was 33 years old, as Jesus ... 100 bits of marble broken off of the Pietà and puzzled them back together. In ...

Another series of steps takes us down into a lamp-lit grotto and a small marble-clad niche. Here, a silver star marks the very spot where, according to tradition, Jesus Christ was born.

Your support makes all the difference. Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was uncovered during construction in the ...

Whatever the squawks about representational art, it is natural to believe a portrait should look like its model. When it ...

Few, if any, industries in the world have a greater percentage of waste than marble quarrying as it is done in Italy, yet the famous Carrara deposits have been worked over 2,000 years, and ...

It took three days to install the Italian marble statue, which weighs an estimated ... reflection and education about the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Credit: Bradley Zint / Diocese of ...