France Is Sending the Statue of Liberty’s in the U.S
Workers at Paris’ National Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), where the effigy has stood since 2011, hoisted the bronze statue onto a truck during a June 7 ceremony, write Xiaofei Xu and Lorraine Poupon for CNN. Per a statement, the replica will board a ship
Not a Leonardo! Clue to wax bust’s attribution lies inside a sperm whale
A Leonardo, or not? Scholars and scientists are locking horns—and the media is frantic. No, they are not fighting over the Salvator Mundi, or even the drawing nicknamed the Bella Principessa. But rather a wax bust of the goddess Flora,
The Great British Art Tour: from a ceiling alcove, an artist’s quiet gaze
Self Portrait (1900) by Emmeline Cust. Photograph: Dan Wray/National Trust Images Author, editor, translator, and sculptor Emmeline “Nina” Cust was born into Lincolnshire nobility in 1867 and came from a line of inquiring, intellectual women. Her mother, Victoria Welby, was a self-educated
Archaeologists in Italy Unearth Marble Bust of Rome’s First Emperor, Augustus
Last week, construction workers conducting renovations in Isernia, a town in south-central Italy, unearthed a long-lost portrait of an ancient ruler: namely, a weathered marble head that dates to the days of the Roman Empire. Researchers suspect that the marble figure
Sculpture by Arno Breker one of Hitler’s favourite artists found buried in Berlin museum garden
A marble sculpture of an outsized head by Arno Breker, one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite artists, has been discovered by chance in the garden of Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin, where it was probably buried by US troops 75 years ago. The
Colossal Bronze Statue of Roman Emperor Reunited With Its Long-Lost Finger
After 500 years, scholars have finally solved a jigsaw puzzle of colossal proportions. This week, Rome’s Capitoline Museums announced that a giant bronze sculpture thought to depict the emperor Constantine was recently reunited with one of its missing pieces: namely, its enormous,
A City in Brazil Is Building a Statue of Jesus That’s Even Taller Than Rio de Janeiro’s
One of the most famous statues of Jesus Rio de Janeiro’s towering Christ the Redeemer has some new competition. An even taller statue is currently under construction in Brazil, titled Christ the Protector.
This Wooden Sculpture Is Twice as Old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids
Gold prospectors first discovered the so-called Shigir Idol at the bottom of a peat bog in Russia’s Ural mountain
MUSÉE RODIN COULD BE FORCED TO RELEASE 3D SCANS OF BRONZE SCULPTURES
A legal case in Paris could force the Musée Rodin to release its 3D scans of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures and make them available to the public. The museum fears this could undermine its financial model, which partly relies on producing original editions of bronzes.
Remnants of Tenth-Century Buddhist Monastery Found in India
Researchers with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have discovered what appear to be the remains of a Buddhist monastery dated to the tenth century A.D. As Abhijit Sen reports for the Times of India, the archaeologists recently found 11 stone statues at the site, which is located in the Hazaribag district of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.