With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior ... of marble wasn’t a scam to get the wealthy Weddell to purchase a seemingly intact statue of ...
A long-overlooked marble bust in a small-town museum could be a rare signed work by Donatello, experts claim. The attribution makes the 15th-century sculpture, once mistaken for a 19th-century ...
Bes was a warrior and protector who watched over women in childbirth. He was also a dancer who frequently played the tambourine. According to The Met, this marble dwarf-dancer, who may have held ...
It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a ...